Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, masterthief GIDEON'S SWORD At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-classmathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideonlearned the truth: His father was framed and deliberatelyslaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avengehim. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-timemission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father'sdestruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, andsuccessful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerfulsomeone, who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone whohas need of just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning . . .
In 1965, after a notorious family feud, Robert Mondavi-thenfifty-two years old-was thrown out of his family's winery. Far fromdefeated, Mondavi was dedicated to a vision of creating a superiorwine. What has happened since that fateful day is one of thegreatest success stories of American business. Today, the RobertMondavi Winery is one of the most respected in the world, andMondavi is the man who is most responsible for the worldwiderecognition of American wine making, as well as changing America'spalate for fine wine and fine food. In Harvests of Joy, Mondavishares how, through his passion for excellence, he achieved thisextraordinary position, one he reached not without pain andsacrifice. With invaluable insider tips on his approach to bothwine making and to running a business, Mondavi's inspirationalstory is "a grand example of the fact that in America you canpretty much be, do, or accomplish, whatever you set out to."(Ventura County Star)
The exhilarating "New York Times" bestseller from the authorof "High Fidelity," "About a Boy," and "How to Be Good."
The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years,Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and theworld they lived in—the glittering Rome of the ItalianRenaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, andgreed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voraciousRodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, wasthe central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspringalso rose to power and fame -- his daughter Lucrezia and herbrother Cesare, who murdered Lucrezia's husband and served as themodel for Machiavelli's The Prince. The Borgias were notorious forseizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage,and murder. The story of the family's dramatic rise from itsSpanish roots to the highest position in Italian society is anabsorbing tale.
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a humanbeing or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm2) Arobot must obey orders givein to it by human beings except wheresuch orders would conflict with the First Law.3) A robot mustprotect its own existence as long as such protection does notconflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simpledirectives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots foreverwhen he formulated the laws governing their behavior. In I, Robot,Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series ofinterlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present toits ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future inwhich humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. Here are stories ofrobots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense ofhumor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run theworld--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and sciencefiction that has become Asmiov's trademark. "From the H
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It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco'sdictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught upin the student protests and the police are after him. He moves tohis uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Magina towrite his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, an obscurerepublican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full oftraces of the poet--notes, photographs, journals--and Minaya soondiscovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War,both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, thebeautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot inthe attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Ines,a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana's lost masterpiece, anovel called "Beatus Ille." Looking for a book, he unravels acrime.
The #1 "New York Times" bestseller now in paperback. For16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He andhis girlfriendamake that ex-girlfrienda Alicia have gottenthemselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow upand struggle with the familiar fears and inclinations that haunt usall. Nick Hornbyas poignant and witty novel shows a rare andimpressive understanding of human relationships and what it reallymeans to be a man.
