I can lick any son-of-a-bitch in the world.So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modernheavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard ofAmerican sports for more than a deca
Author Ayn Rand's novel Ideal, in print for the first time ever--a landmark event for fans of the groundbreaking philosopherOriginally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand
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For fans of Louise Penny, C. J. Box, and Nevada Barr comes a haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park, where one man finds himself on a collision course with the dark heart of the wild and th
Why do some people livehappier, successful, and more fulfilling lives, while others are miserable,struggling and empty? Ask gives you the answer. In aneasy-to-read, humorous, conversational style, pep
The owner of service dog organization paws4people describes the healing powers that canines can have on suffering humans, including disabled children and wounded veterans, and discusses the history of
Recent high school graduate Wintric Ellis joins the army and leaves his backwoods California hometown for deployment to Afghanistan, where he and his two closest friends, Dax and Torres, face an impos
Conductors face the ultimate leadership challenge:command a complex organization in real time before an audience, not once stopping midway or starting again from the beginning. For the great conductor
Lamin Michaels learned at his mother's knee the importance of chasing paper, so it's no surprise he gets into the drug game when he's just a teenager. When he meets Zion, a product of the New York Cit
Originally published in 1962 and updated in laterdecades with a new introduction, EllisonWonderland contains sixteen masterful stories from the author's earlycareer. This collection shows a vibrant yo
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Sonnets & Sunspots tells the story of one of the most beloved popular science series of all time and the charismatic educator who became an icon to several generations of students. The book is als
CustomerLoyalty is acollection of all the top real-world tools, strategies, and principles used bytoday's top brands to increase their customer loyalty and the overall lifetimevalue of their customers
TheFast and the Furious gets a futuristic twist in thisaction-packed debut!On corporately controlled Castra, rally racing is ahigh-stakes game that seventeen-year-old Phoebe Van Zant knows all too wel
Describes the political and military trio of Henry Stimson, George C. Marshall, and Ernest J. King, who were Roosevelt's trusted advisers during World War II and put aside their personal differences t
The most decorated gymnast in American history discusses her love of gymnastics and success in Olympic competition, her recent recovery from cancer, and her miracle pregnancy.
Welcome to the fracturedfuture, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.Earth has a population ofroughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot.Those who are unhappy have
Twelve-year-old Caitlin's daily visits to the local aquarium after school bring her into contact with an elderly fellow aquarium lover, whom she befriends just as she discovers a shocking family secre
An exciting mystery by the masterly Ellery QueenMadman or murderer? That was the question and it was Police Inspector Omar Collins who had come up with the answer. All he had to go on was: the victim-
Heartwarming stories of summer romance from fouracclaimed Regency authorsFrom the zestful tale of the mistress of a manor masqueradingas a servant girl--and its surprising consequences to the story of
In The Eating of theGods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy fromthe modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare OurContemporary, Kottprovides startling i
Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporaryToronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in a bohemianneighborhood. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full ofstudents an
The author describes his quest to uncover his family's history in Ireland and is joined by other writers who tell the stories of their trips to various locales around the globe in search of their root
An exciting SF novel by Hugo Award-winning author Ben BovaIn thenext century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form theInternational Peacekeeping Force. The IPF is charged with contr
The director of the American-Afghan war describes how he orchestrated the defeat of the Taliban in the region by forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and the Pakistani intelli
After a full-throttle brain bleed at the age oftwenty-five, Ashok Rajamani, a first-generation Indian American, had to bereborn, relearning the most basic of things, piecing together a past,reclaiming
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Reveals the author's quest to find the perfect weight loss plan, discussing how he leveraged traditional and alternative technologies to reach his physical and mental prime, and offers an anti-inflamm
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A history of post-World War II Washington traces the roles of such figures as the Grahams of "The Washington Post," pundits Joe and Stewart Alsop, and CIA covert ops lawyer Frank Wisner in steering th
Lewis Shiner's stunning science fiction debutAfter theworld's governments collapsed, the corporations took control. Houston'sPulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to
A groundbreakingbook that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how corruption andprivate interest have infiltrated every level of societyFrom the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however di
In 1967, a brutal murder in the midst of an anti-Vietnam War group sparks an investigation by Sam McCain, in Ed Gorman's most politically charged mystery yet. When we last saw Sam McCain he had been d
The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstreamThe discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead
From the NewYork Times bestselling author of TheStolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boytrapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy andreal
A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy andcomplicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and rawas it
Ross Harney had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned: a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These
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