Four very different women; all addicted to shoes. Lorna is up to her eyeballs in debt but can't help bidding for the newest Jimmy Choos on eBay. Helene is unhappily married to a politician who keeps threatening to cancel her credit cards. Sandra pays her shoe bills by working as a phone sex operator[...]

When four very different women ...all addicted to shoes... come upon a classified advert, inviting shoe lovers to a weekly shoe-swap, each one jumps at the chance to meet fellow addicts. But none of them realise that they will come away with much, much more than just a new pair of kitten heels...[...]

The first complete, annotated edition of this major source of Chinese mythology.

Traditionally ascribed to the mythical figure Yu the Great, The Classic of Mountains and Seas (third century B.C. to second century A.D.) brings together a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about [...]

"The Anonymous Marie de France" offers a fundamental reconception of the person generally assumed to be the first woman writer in French, the woman now referred to as Marie de France. Written by renowned medievalist R. Howard Bloch, it is the first book to consider all of the writing ascribed to Mar[...]

A landmark history, based on newly available documents, of the battles between Jews, Arabs, and the British that led to the creation of Israel
"Anonymous Soldiers" brilliantly re-creates the crucial period in the establishment of Israel, chronicling the three decades of growing anticolonial unre[...]

When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease. Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a [...]

WE ARE ANONYMOUS is the first full account of how a loosely assembled, global group of hackers formed a new kind of insurgency and were brought down by the ultimate betrayal of one of their own.
Forbes's London Bureau Chief Parmy Olson goes into the world of Anonymous and LulzSec with unprecede[...]

A 75th anniversary keepsake volume of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, "Alcoholics Anonymous."
Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: "Alcoholics Anonymous."
Shrink-wrapped in a v[...]

LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal. The groups have infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia. This title is the story of a hive mind, with many hackers across the globe connected to slice through sec[...]

The actors in James Franco's brilliant debut novel include a McDonald's drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written b[...]

A simple, proven-effective formula for freeing yourself from debt--and staying that way - Revised and updated, with a new Preface by the author
"A must-read for anyone wanting to get their head above water.""--The Wall Street Journal"
THE CLASSIC GUIDE, REVISED WITH UP-TO-THE-MINUTE INFORMA[...]

Hollywood has always been a private club. I open the gates. I say welcome. I say, look inside. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, James Franco's Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure invention in an examination of celebrity, acting and t[...]