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A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories — which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, t...

Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Sta...

Chronicles John F. Kennedy's Childhood, Wartime Actions, Political Campaigns, Presidency, Marriage And Personal Life, And Health, Revealing Insights Into Hi...

From marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness--three women seek peace and comfort in Nantucket as they cope wit...

A summer wedding stirs up trouble on both sides of the family in this beloved bestseller from "the queen of the summer novel" (People).The Carmichaels and ...

How Do We Think Without Thinking, Seem To Make Choices In An Instant--in The Blink Of An Eye--that Actually Aren't As Simple As They Seem? Why Are Some Peop...

How Do We Think Without Thinking, Seem To Make Choices In An Instant--in The Blink Of An Eye--that Actually Aren't As Simple As They Seem? Why Are Some Peop...

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30...

the Basis For The Famous Pbs Television Series Starring Jeremy Irons And Anthony Andrews, Evelyn Waugh's Bestselling Classic Is Now Available As An Ebook. ...

a Triumphant New Novel From Award-winner Kate Atkinson: A Breathtaking Story Of Families Divided, Love Lost And Found, And The Mysteries Of Fate. case One:...

"Sparkling and combustible" (Bloomberg Businessweek), "Disgraced rubs all kinds of unexpected raw spots with intelligence and humor" (Newsday). "In dialogu...

This Collection Of Essays Probes The Ways In Which Classic Children's Literature Tends To Undermine, Rather Than Support, Respectable Adult Values. Subversi...

From The Publisher: Jonathan Safran Foer Spent Much Of His Teenage And College Years Oscillating Between Omnivore And Vegetarian. But On The Brink Of Father...

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in...

Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of nineteenth-century America...

the Greatest Unsolved Mystery Of The American Southwest Is The Fate Of The Anasazi, The Native Peoples Who In The Eleventh Century Converged On Chaco Cany...

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. Whe...

Receiving An Invitation To His Ex-boyfriend's Wedding, Arthur, A Failed Novelist On The Eve Of His Fiftieth Birthday, Embarks On An International Journey Th...

the Long-awaited Autobiography Of The Guitarist, Songwriter, Singer, And Founding Member Of The Rolling Stones. Ladies And Gentlemen: Keith Richards.with T...

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July, 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was...

The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting...both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the powe...

ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about langua...

The Stories: A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, Just Before the War with the Eskimos, The Laughing Man, Down at the Dinghy, For Esm...

One snowy New Year's Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney—haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his wife an...

One snowy New Year's Day, in the midst of the Great Depression, Dr. James Delaney—haunted by the slaughters of the Great War, and abandoned by his wife an...

Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achiev...

Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achiev...

From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works i...

Product Description Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerfu...

A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and t...

Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, an...

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm...

Provides An Account Of The Assassination Of President Kennedy, Drawing From Interviews, Observations, And The Proceedings Of The Warren Commission To Chroni...

rarely Has The Experience Of Being A Sister Been So Poignantly And Memorably Captured As In Lori Lansens's Triumphant Novel. The Girls Celebrates Life's F...

Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize The Goldfinch Is A Rarity That Comes Along Perhaps Half A Dozen Times Per Decade, A Smartly Written Literary Novel That Connect...

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multiv...

The Earth Has Been Invaded By A Species That Take Over The Minds Of Their Human Hosts While Leaving Their Bodies Intact, And Most Of Humanity Has Succumbed....

The Earth Has Been Invaded By A Species That Take Over The Minds Of Their Human Hosts While Leaving Their Bodies Intact, And Most Of Humanity Has Succumbed....

This Is The Tale Of Family, Memory, Love, And Living Told By 14-year-old Susie Salmon, Who Is Already In Heaven. Through The Voice Of A Precocious Teenage G...

This Is The Tale Of Family, Memory, Love, And Living Told By 14-year-old Susie Salmon, Who Is Already In Heaven. Through The Voice Of A Precocious Teenage G...

The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local...

Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a...

Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have inclu...

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award fo...

Ideas, Products, Messages And Behaviors Spread Just Like Viruses Do. Behavior Can Ripple Outward Until A Critical Mass Or Tipping Point Is Reached, Changing...

Ideas, Products, Messages And Behaviors Spread Just Like Viruses Do. Behavior Can Ripple Outward Until A Critical Mass Or Tipping Point Is Reached, Changing...

Ideas, Products, Messages And Behaviors Spread Just Like Viruses Do. Behavior Can Ripple Outward Until A Critical Mass Or Tipping Point Is Reached, Changing...