Once in a lifetime, a writer puts it all together. This is JamesPatterson's best book ever Total For 36 years, James Patterson has writtenunputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book thatsurpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born towrite. World All over the world, brutal attacks are cripplingentire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches theescalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When hewitnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of theviolence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. Destruction With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Ozraces to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks aregrowing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will beno place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imaginationand white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his verybest, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from"One of the best of the best." (TIME)
Joseph Epstein demonstrates time and again his talent fortaking nearly any subject and polishing it into a gem of sparklingwit and fascination. In Narcissus Leaves the Pool, he displays hissignature verve and charm in sixteen agile, entertaining pieces.Among his targets in this collection are name-dropping, talentversus genius, the cult of youthfulness, and the informationrevolution.
Leo Tolstoy’s short works, like his novels, show readers his narrative genius, keen observation, and historical acumen—albeit on a smaller scale. This Norton Critical Edition presents twelve of Tolstoy’s best-known stories, based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translations (except “Alyosha Gorshok”), which have been revised by the editor for enhanced comprehension and annotated for student readers. The Second Edition newly includes “A Prisoner in the Caucasus,” “Father Sergius,” and “After the Ball,” in addition to Michael Katz’s new translation of “Alyosha Gorshok.” Together these stories represent the best of the author’s short fiction before War and Peace and after Anna Karenina. “Backgrounds and Sources” includes two Tolstoy memoirs, A History of Yesterday (1851) and The Memoirs of a Madman (1884), as well as entries—expanded in the Second Edition—from Tolstoy’s “Diary for 1855” and selected letters (1858–95) that shed light on the author’s creative p
A new volume of poems brings readers startling visions of theworld in which we all live, exploring a haunted landscape on thebrink in which the mundane and surreal, profane and sacred areindistinguishable.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a Wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers’ attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger’s new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J. K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot,” “The Fountain of Fair Fortune,” “The Warlock’s Hairy Heart,” “Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump,” and of course, “The Tale of the Three Brothers.” But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we now know and love, reading them gives new insight into the world of Harry Potter. The stories are accompanied by delightful pen-and-ink illustrations by Ms. Rowling herself, featuring a still-life frontispiece for each one. Professor Dumbledore’s commentary—apparently written some eighteen months befor
Frank O'Hara was one of the great poets of the twentiethcentury and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as DeniseLevertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, acrucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New AmericanPoetry, "which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force inthe American poetic tradition." Frank O'Hara was born in Baltimorein 1926 and grew up in New England; from 1951 he lived and workedin New York, both for "Art News" and for the Museum of Modern Art,where he was an associate curator. O'Hara's untimely death in 1966at the age of forty was, in the words of fellow poet John Ashbery,"the biggest secret loss to American poetry since John Wheelwrightwas killed." This collection is a reissue of a volume firstpublished by Grove Press in 1957, and it demonstrates beautifullythe flawless rhythm underlying O'Hara's conviction that to writepoetry, indeed to live, "you just go on your nerve."
"That Little Something "is the superb eighteenth collection fromone of America's most vital and honored poets. Over the course ofhis singular career, Charles Simic has won nearly every accolade,including the Pulitzer Prize, and he served as the poet laureate ofthe United States from 2007 to 2008.His wry humor and darklyilluminating vision are on full display here as he moves close tothe dark ironies of history and human experience. Simic understandsthe strange interplay between the ordinary and the odd, betweenreality and imagination. "That Little Something "is a stunningcollection from "not only one of the most prolific poets but alsoone of the most distinctive, accessible, and enjoyable" ("New YorkTimes Book Review").
Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal follows thestory of outcast high school senior Carson Phillips who blackmailsthe most popular students into contributing to his literary journalto bolster his college application; his goal in life is to get intoNorthwestern and eventually become the editor of The NewYorker. At once laugh-out-loud funny, deliciously dark, and remarkablysmart, Struck by Lightning unearths the dirt that lies just belowthe surface of high school. The major motion picture Struck by Lightning features Colfer'sown original screenplay and stars Allison Janney, ChristinaHendricks, Dermot Mulroney, and Colfer in leading roles.
The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royalhouses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples:über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terribleliterally reigned in blood. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic theappearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole her man. AndPauline Bonaparte scandalized her brother Napoleon by having agolden goblet fashioned in the shape of her breast. Chock-full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildlywicked nobles, Royal Pains is a rollicking compendium of themost infamous, capricious, and insatiable bluebloods of Europe.
Though the story has been told on film—and whispered inhistoric gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years tosolely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved RobertDudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue,their relationship set the explosive connection between public andprivate life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why didthey never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsessionwas actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicesterreignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyoneinterested in Elizabethan literature.
