As far as I was concerned, the French could be cold or even openly hostile. They could burn my flag or pelt me with stones, but if there were taxidermied kittens to be had then I would go and bring them back to this, the greatest country on earth. David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Prett[...]
David Sedaris's best work to date, ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, maki[...]
War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army's CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up wi[...]
'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will th[...]
'I can imagine you at forty,' she said, a hint of malice in her voice. 'I can picture it right now.' He smiled without opening his eyes. 'Go on then.' 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will th[...]
`I can imagine you at forty,` she said, a hint of malice in her voice. `I can picture it right now.`
He smiled without opening his eyes. `Go on then.`
15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate [...]
Resurrected one thousand years after his famed battles alongside Druss the Legend, Skilgannon the Damned struggles with fragmented memories in order to fulfill a prophecy that he will save war-torn Drenai from an evil sorceress and her half-man, half-beast minions. By the author of White Wolf. Repri[...]
Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts t[...]
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight... 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an East[...]
In "The Improbability Principle," the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month.
But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophe[...]
In "The Improbability Principle," the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month.
But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophe[...]
In his "New York Times" bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what "Entertainment Weekly" calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every d[...]
In a fascinating memoir of life as a paratrooper during World War II, the author describes his career with the 101st Airborne Division, drawing on the letters he sent home during the war and personal reminiscences to offer vivid portraits of his fellow soldiers and the harsh realities and tragedies [...]
On 28 October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba. History has marked that day as a seminal moment and the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. As President Kennedy's secretly recorded White House tapes now reveal, the reality was not so simple. Nuclear missiles and bombe[...]
David Kenyon Webster's memoir is a clear-eyed, emotionally charged chronicle of youth, camaraderie, and the chaos of war. Relying on his own letters home and recollections he penned just after his discharge, Webster gives a first hand account of life in "E Company, 101st Airborne Division," crafting[...]
Is Western civilization in an accelerating decline? And if it continues will it eventually weaken and cause us to come to the end of cultured civilization as we now know it? Jeremiah says yes. I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY details numerous signs of this moral and social decay: . Marriage becoming[...]
From David Baldacci--the modern master of the thriller and #1 worldwide bestselling novelist-comes a new hero: a lone Army Special Agent taking on the toughest crimes facing the nation.
And "Zero Day" is where it all begins....
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigat[...]
In his "New York Times" bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what "Entertainment Weekly" calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every d[...]
Proven methods for building an online income stream You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.[...]
This bold account provides an original perspective on one of the most significant legal struggles in American history: the Nixon administration's efforts to prohibit "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" from publishing the 7,000-page, top-secret Pentagon Papers, which traced U.S. involveme[...]