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By Marvel,
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THIS IS IT! The historic 50th anniversary of the Fantastic Four, and they're celebrating in style! Featuring top creative talent, Reed Richards and the rest of the Future Foundation prepare for war and unexpected surprises.
- Amazing Spider-Man
By Marvel,
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The world's greatest super hero has his hands full as the new and improved Vulture makes his return! Except in order to take the Vulture down, Spidey will have to team up with the most unlikely person he could think of.
- Generation Hope
By Marvel,
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It's training day as Hope and the rest of her team settle in on Utopia. As the team goes head to head against Cyclops' Extinction Team, a new mutant is waiting to be found. But when the team heads out into hostile territory, can they make it out alive?.
- Bro on the Go
By Barney Stinson, 2009
ISBN 1439173133
From the mind of New York Times bestselling author Barney Stinson comes the ultimate companion to The Bro Code - a handy reference guide crafted for today's active Bro. With new rules, inspirations, and wisdom, coupled with classics staples from the original Code, Bro on the Go is designed to...
- Marie Antoinette: The Journey
By Antonia Fraser, 2002
ISBN 0385489498
France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history.
- A Giraffe and a Half
By Shel Silverstein, 1964
ISBN 0060256559
If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half ... you would have a giraffe and a half. And if you glued a rose to the tip of his nose ... And ... if he put on a shoe and then stepped in some glue ... And if he used a chair to comb his hair ...And so it goes until ... but that would be telling.
- Glass Houses
By Rachel Caine, 2006
ISBN 0451219945
From the author of the popular Weather Warden series. Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social...
- The Funny Thing Is...
By Ellen DeGeneres, 2004
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Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...and I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book.
- As You Like It
By William Shakespeare, 2004
ISBN 074348486X
Frederick has usurped the Duchy and exiled his older brother, Duke Senior. The Duke's daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who has fallen in love at first...
- The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
By Karen Page, 2008
ISBN 0316118400
Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe--it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to...
- The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel
By Stephen King, 2000
ISBN 0743210891
Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul...
- His Excellency: George Washington
By Joseph J. Ellis, 2005
ISBN 1400032539
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount...
- Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
By Christopher Tolkien, 2001
ISBN 0618154043
A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication, UNFINISHED TALES is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and further relates events as told in THE SILMARILLION and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
- The Sandman Vol. 3: Dream Country
By Neil Gaiman, 1991
ISBN 156389016X
The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of...
- Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
By Karl Weber, 2009
ISBN 1586486942
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael...
- Nineteen Minutes
By Jodi Picoult, 2008
ISBN 0743496736
Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its...
- The Sandman Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections
By Neil Gaiman, 1994
ISBN 1563891050
From the mists of the past to the nightmares of the present, Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN touches the lives of kings and knaves, explorers, storytellers, monsters and children. This collection of short tales explores historical figures from Augustus Caesar to Marco Polo, from The Arabian Nights to...
- The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You
By Neil Gaiman, 1993
ISBN 1563890895
You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consistedof cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the helldoes that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description.
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
By Nelson Mandela, 1995
ISBN 0316548189
The best-selling memoirs, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power. Reprint. NYT.
- Idoru
By William Gibson, 1997
ISBN 0425158640
In twenty-first century Tokyo, Rez, one of the world's biggest rock stars, prepares to marry Rei Toe, Japan's biggest media star, who is known as the Idoru and who exists only in virtual reality. Reprint.".
- Ford County: Stories
By John Grisham, 2009
ISBN 0385532458
John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill. This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller.
- The Walking Dead Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire
By Robert Kirkman, 2005
ISBN 1582405301
Life in the prison starts to get interesting for Rick Grimes and the rest of our survivors. Relationships heat up, fizzle out, and change entirely almost overnight. By the end of this volume, relationships between key characters are radically changed, setting the stage for future events in...
- The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
By Ann Brashares, 2006
ISBN 0553495011
Can't wait for the next installment of the Pants? Check out the SPECIAL EDITION of The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, in stores now!Inside you'll find an exclusive "Who's Your Soul Mate Quiz" and a sneak peak at the third book, Girls in Pants.With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the...
- The Civil War: A Narrative
By Shelby Foote, 1986
ISBN 0394749138
Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox.
- The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition
By Cook's Illustrated Magazine, 2004
ISBN 0936184744
With The New Best Recipe, we invite you into America’s Test Kitchen where you will stand by our side as we try to develop the best macaroni and cheese, the best meatloaf, the best roast chicken, the best brownie, and nearly 1,000 more best recipes for all your favorite home-cooked foods.
- Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
By Morgan Spurlock, 2006
ISBN 0425210235
The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long McDonald's diet became the subject of an...
- The Importance of Being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde, 2005
ISBN 158049580X
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Wilde's wry wit and elaborate plot twists. Oscar WildeÂ’s madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and loversÂ’ entanglements still delights readers...
- Divine Misdemeanors
By Laurell K. Hamilton, 2009
ISBN 0345495969
You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kins treachery...
- The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives
By Neil Gaiman, 1995
ISBN 1563891387
Delirium, youngest brother of the Endless, prevails upon her brother, Dream, to help her find their missing sibling. Their travels take them through the world of the waking until a final confrontation with the missing member of the Endless and the resolution of Dream's relationship with his son...
- Mansfield Park
By Jane Austen, 2003
ISBN 0141439807
New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's original introduction reinstated Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.
- The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
By Ree Drummond, 2009
ISBN 0061658197
My name is Ree. Some folks know me as The Pioneer Woman. After years of living in Los Angeles, I made a pit stop in my hometown in Oklahoma on the way to a new, exciting life in Chicago. It was during my stay at home that I met Marlboro Man, a mysterious cowboy with steely blue eyes and a...
- It's Always Something
By Gilda Radner, 2000
ISBN 038081322X
"I had wanted to wrap this book up in a neat little package. I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end."The world fondly remembers the many faces of Gilda Radner: the adamant but misinformed...
- The Sandman Vol. 8: Worlds' End
By Neil Gaiman, 1995
ISBN 1563891719
When Brant and Charlene wreck their car in a horrible snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, the only place they can find shelter is a mysterious little inn called World's End. Here they wait out the storm and listen to stories from the many travelers also stuck at this tavern.
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
By Dan Brown, 2006
ISBN 0321392353
Most discussion about Web design seems to focus on the creative process, yet turning concept into reality requires a strong set of deliverables—the documentation (concept model, site maps, usability reports, and more) that serves as the primary communication tool between designers and...
- Danny the Champion of the World
By Roald Dahl, 2007
ISBN 0142410330
anny’s dad had a secret, but now the secret’s out and it’s going to lead Danny on the adventure of a lifetime.
- Batman: Haunted Knight
By Jeph Loeb, 1996
ISBN 1563892731
In the city of the demented villains, Halloween brings out the worst of the lot. This edition collects three of Batman's Halloween adventures in which he takes on some of the most fearsome and twisted foes--The Scarecrow, The Mad Hatter, and The Penguin.
- Siddhartha
By Hermann Hesse, 1922
ISBN 1934648035
Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a deceptively simple, intense, and lyrical allegorical tale of a man in ancient India striving for enlightenment at the time of Buddha. Siddhartha is a man whose life journey runs in parallel and who may or may not be another version of Buddha himself.
- The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
By Deepak Chopra, 2005
ISBN 1400098343
Every life is a book of secrets, ready to be opened. The secret of perfect love is found there, along with the secrets of healing, compassion, faith, and the most elusive one of all: who we really are. We are still mysteries to ourselves, despite the proximity of these answers, and what we most...
- Dance upon the Air
By Nora Roberts, 2001
ISBN 0515131229
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author-the first book in the reissued Three Sisters Island trilogy is a tale of friendship, fate, and the mysterious ways of the heart.
- The Heart of a Woman
By Maya Angelou, 1984
ISBN 9780553246896
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman , her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters...
- iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
By Jeffrey S. Young, 2006
ISBN 0471787841
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating...
- American Psycho
By Bret Easton Ellis, 1991
ISBN 0679735771
The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By Michael Pollan, 2009
ISBN 014311638X
Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural...
- An Ice Cold Grave
By Charlaine Harris, 2008
ISBN 0425224244
Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina, to find a missing boy—one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them, buried in the frozen ground. Soon Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark...
- Haunted
By Chuck Palahniuk, 2006
ISBN 1400032822
Stuffing only what they need into one suitcase, seventeen people board a bus for what promises to be the most creative three months of their lives. Each character tells their story as they are instructed to write the next great American novel during the three month writing retreat.
- Killing Floor
By Lee Child, 2006
ISBN 0515141429
Ex-MP Jack Reacher goes into action to find his brother's killers, after a series of brutal crimes terrorizes tiny Margrave, Georgia, only to uncover the dark and deadly conspiracy concealed behind the town's peaceful facade. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
- Blackwood Farm
By Anne Rice, 2003
ISBN 0345443683
In her new novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets.Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious...
- The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
By Neil Gaiman, 1997
ISBN 1563892790
This is the conclusion to the much talked about Sandman series. It may be best to start your Sandman acquaintance with earlier episodes, but The Wake stands as one of Neil Gaiman's strongest and most consistent Sandman volumes to date.
- The House at Pooh Corner
By A. A. Milne, 1992
ISBN 0140361227
Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers.
- Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment
By Deepak Chopra, 2008
ISBN 0060878819
Deepak Chopra brings the Buddha back to life in this gripping New York Times bestselling novel about the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. This iconic journey changed the world forever, and the truths revealed continue to influence every corner of the globe...
- Mort
By Terry Pratchett, 2001
ISBN 0061020680
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of...
- The Undomestic Goddess
By Sophie Kinsella, 2007
ISBN 044024238X
Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere.
- Miles
By Miles Davis, 1990
ISBN 0330313827
For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life...
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
By Stephen King, 2000
ISBN 0671042858
On a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. But when she wanders off by herself, and then tries to catch up by attempting a...
- Fever Pitch
By Nick Hornby, 1998
ISBN 1573226882
This is a chronicle of Nick Hornby's obsession with British football, and his extraordinary devotion to one team, Arsenal.
- The Robots of Dawn
By Isaac Asimov, 1994
ISBN 0553299492
Called to the Spacer world to solve a case of roboticide, New York City detective Elijah Baley teams up with humanoid robot R. Daneel Olivaw to prove that the prime suspect, a renowned roboticist, is innocent of the crime. Reprint.
- The Rule of Four
By Ian Caldwell, 2005
ISBN 0440241359
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four?a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. It's Easter at Princeton.
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
By Michael Lewis, 2004
ISBN 0393324818
"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange...
- Lauren Bacall: By Myself
By Lauren Bacall, 1985
ISBN 0345333217
The epitome of class, instinctive talent, and razor-sharp wit, Lauren Bacall continues to project an audacious spirit and pursue on-screen excellence. The product of an extraordinary mother and a loving extended family, she produced, with Humphrey Bogart, some of the most electric and memorable...
- Your Heart Belongs to Me
By Dean Koontz, 2008
ISBN 0553807137
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts...
- The Sandman: Endless Nights
By Neil Gaiman, 2004
ISBN 140120113X
Featuring the popular characters from the award-winning Sandman series by Neil Caiman, THE SANDMAN: ENDLESS NIGHTS reveals the legend of the Endless, a family of magical and mythical beings who exist and interact in the real world. Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire...
- Flying Changes
By Sara Gruen, 2007
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Anxiety rules Annemarie Zimmer's days—the fear that her relationship with the man she loves is growing stagnant; the fear that equestrian daughter Eva's dreams of Olympic glory will carry her far away from her mother . . . and into harm's way. For five months, Annemarie has struggled to make...
- Eleven Minutes
By Paulo Coelho, 2005
ISBN 0060589280
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A...
- Family Ties
By Danielle Steel, 2010
ISBN 9780385343169
Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her handuntil a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her...
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
By Jon Krakauer, 2004
ISBN 1400032806
Jon Krakauer’s literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000...
- Sputnik Sweetheart
By Haruki Murakami, 2002
ISBN 0375726055
Haruki Murakami, the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars, coffee shops, Jack Kerouac, and the Beatles to tell this story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited loves.
- The Poet
By Michael Connelly, 2002
ISBN 0446690457
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly has written one explosive thriller after another featuring Detective Harry Bosch. Now, in an electrifying departure, he presents a novel that breaks all the rules and will keep your heart racing and your mind guessing until the very last page.
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 2: Cycles
By Brian K. Vaughan, 2003
ISBN 1401200761
The series that has taken the US by storm comes to the UK in the second of an all-new Titan graphic novel series! From writer Brian K. Vaughan (Swamp Thing, The Hood) and up-and-coming artist Pia Guerra comes a view of a dystopian society where suddenly - and without warning - a mysterious plague...
- Debt of Honor
By Tom Clancy, 1995
ISBN 0425147584
In a world at peace, Jack Ryan is the President's National Security Advisor-but the wages of peace are as complex-and devastating-as war itself.
- Uglies
By Scott Westerfeld, 2005
ISBN 0689865384
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive...
- Henry V
By William Shakespeare, 2004
ISBN 0743484878
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to be written in approximately 1599. Its full titles are The Chronicle History of Henry the Fifth (in the First Quarto text) and The Life of Henry the Fifth (in the First Folio text). It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing...
- City of Bones
By Michael Connelly, 2006
ISBN 0446699535
Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives.
- Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
By Neil Gaiman, 2008
ISBN 0061450162
In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders—where an old woman can purchase the Holy Grail at a thrift store, where assassins...
- Happy Birthday to You!
By Dr. Seuss, 1959
ISBN 0394800761
Illus. in color. "The Great Birthday Bird guides us on a birthday trip. The multicolored excursion is a festive one."--School Library Journal.
- Spellbound
By Nora Roberts, 2005
ISBN 0515140775
Leave it to number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts to spin a tale that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, modern-day mishaps and ancient curses, obsession and undying passion. She'll have you cheering for love to win the day as a man and woman discover just how deep their bond...
- Personal Injuries
By Scott Turow, 2000
ISBN 0446608602
Scott Turow has always pushed himself beyond the expectations of readers and critics. In Presumed Innocent (1987), he introduced fictional Kindle County and ushered in the era that spawned such mega-authors as John Grisham, Richard North Patterson, and David Baldacci.
- Salt: A World History
By Mark Kurlansky, 2003
ISBN 0142001619
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often...
- The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
By Simon Singh, 2000
ISBN 0385495323
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo...
- The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
By Alexander Mccall Smith, 2010
ISBN 0375424504
The delightful new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events -- including the...
- Scat
By Carl Hiaasen, 2009
ISBN 0375834869
Mrs. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, was last seen during a field trip to Black Vine Swamp. The school’s headmaster and the police seem to have accepted the sketchy, unsigned note explaining that her absence is due to a “family emergency.
- Cryptonomicon
By Neal Stephenson, 2002
ISBN 0060512806
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.
- Extreme Measures
By Vince Flynn, 2009
ISBN 1847370721
With Mitch Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protege, Mike Nash. Nash has served his government honourably for sixteen years, first as an officer in the Marine Corps, then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Mitch Rapp, never wavering...
- Rainbow Six
By Tom Clancy, 1999
ISBN 0425170349
Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.
- The Runaway Bunny
By Margaret Wise Brown, 2005
ISBN 0060775823
A little bunny keeps runningaway from his mother in an imaginative and imaginary game of verbal hide-and-seek; children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become...
- Three Weeks with My Brother
By Nicholas Sparks, 2006
ISBN 0446694851
DESCRIPTION: In January 2003, Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah set off on a three-week trip around the world. It was to mark a milestone in their lives, for at 37 and 38 respectively, they were now the only surviving members of their family. As Nicholas and Micah travel the globe, the intimate...
- Inside Steve's Brain
By Leander Kahney, 2008
ISBN 1591841984
Steve Jobs has turned his personality traits into a business philosophy. Here?s how he does it. It?s hard to believe that one man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ?80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and digital music in the 2000s (with the iPod...
- Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe
By Arianna Huffington, 2008
ISBN 0307269663
With her trademark passion, intelligence, and devastating wit, Huffington Post editor in chief Arianna Huffington tackles the issues that are crucial to this year’s presidential election and, even more so, to the fate of the country.Huffington makes the case that America has been hijacked from...
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
ISBN 0812504240
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June...
- The God of Small Things
By Arundhati Roy, 2008
ISBN 0812979656
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by...
- Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
By Sophie Kinsella, 2004
ISBN 0440241812
The irresistible heroine of Confessions of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Ties the Knot is back! And this time Becky Bloomwood and her credit cards are headed across the Atlantic.…With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and her career as a TV financial guru thriving, Becky’s biggest problem...
- The Long Tail : Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
By Chris; McGehee, Sharon; La Motta, Jake Anderson, 2006
ISBN 184413850X
"The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket shelves to advertising...
- Love, Ellen: A Mother/Daughter Journey
By Betty Degeneres, 2000
ISBN 0688176887
"Mom, I'm gay."With three little words, gay sons and daughters can change their parents' lives forever. Twenty years ago, during a walk on a Mississippi beach, Ellen DeGeneres spoke those simple, powerful words to her mother. That emotional moment eventually brought mother and daughter closer...
- Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel
By Alexander McCall Smith, 2009
ISBN 0375424490
The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . . Mma Ramotswe’s ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise.
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
By Jane Austen, 2009
ISBN 1594743347
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
By Max Brooks, 2009
ISBN 030740577X
Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat it.From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They’re coming. They’re hungry.Don’t wait for them to come to you! This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie attacks...
- Lasher
By Anne Rice, 1995
ISBN 0345397819
"SEDUCTIVE MAGIC...SPELLBINDING...Rice stages her scenes in a wide variety of times and locales, tapping deeply into the richest veins of mythology and history."--San Francisco Chronicle"STEAMY...FAST-PACED AND HUGELY ENGROSSING...Rice's title character--a seductive, evil, highly sexual and...
- The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
By Susan Wise Bauer, 2007
ISBN 039305974X
A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still...
- Betrayal in Death
By J.D. Robb, 2001
ISBN 0425178579
New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas is up against a hit-man for the elite, whose next target may be her own husband, Roarke.
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