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From two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influentialinvestigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidencytraces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, fromGeorge Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has bothserved and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do aboutit in years to come. The book that gave the phrase imperialpresidency to the language, this is a work of substantialscholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit (The NewYorker).
You'll lose a lot of sleep ...Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon ...
Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on theShore—“daringly original,” wrote Steven Moore in The WashingtonPost Book World, “and compulsively readable”—comes a collectionthat generously expresses Murakami’s mastery. From the surreal tothe mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform thefull range of human experience in ways that are instructive,surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder haswritten in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “He addresses thefantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity andlightness.” Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, aswell as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for.Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile inGreece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life,Murakami’s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or theglow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those whoought to be the closest of all. “While
A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon ona desperate search for a kidnapped woman, in a race against timethat will compromise Allonas own conscienceaand life...
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of totail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out theredhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder,but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.andquot; Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested thesun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:andquot; -- Ross Macdonald
When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace concern grows within the intelligence services Are they being kidnapped?Blackmailed?Brainwashed? One woman appears to hold key to the mystery Unfortunately she now lies dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile in a Casablanca hotel room Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die…
"Assassin's Creed: Forsaken" is the latest thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the phenomenally successful game series. 'I am an expert swordsman. And I am skilled in the business of death. I take no pleasure in my skill. Simply, I am good at it.' 1735 - London. Haytham Kenway has been taught to use a sword from the age he was able to hold one. When his family's house is attacked - his father murdered and his sister taken by armed men - Haytham defends his home the only way he can: he kills. With no family, he is taken in by a mysterious tutor who trains him to become a deadly killer. Consumed by his thirst for revenge Haytham begins a quest for retribution, trusting no one and questioning everything he has ever known. Conspiracy and betrayal surround him as he is drawn into the centuries old battle between the Assassins and the Templars. The world of the Assassin's has become far more lethal than ever before. "Assassin's Creed: Forsaken" is based on the phenomenally successful gaming serie
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, theContinental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meanttaking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crimenovel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence inthe American grain.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-a moving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, and often comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, to tend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway will be ruined-until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort-and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives.
Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a youngtraveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, andis given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. Buttheir visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal communityhas its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady tobe cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruellypunished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyedafter a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where moralityis turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler's years incolonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin ofSpecies", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent andhumorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy andthe unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees ofGombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behaviorever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologistLouis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in thewild might shed light on the behavior of our Stone Age ancestors.Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she setup camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania.For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the jungle from dawnuntil dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. Atlast came the day when she was accepted and no longer feared. Shewas able to record previously unknown behavior, such as theuse--and even the making--of tools, until then believed to be anexclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps asindividuals, she deciphered their complicated social hierarchy,their rituals, and many other extraordinary behaviors, which haveforever changed our understanding of the profound connectionb
Daniel silva has hit the top with his new gabriel allonnovel... A #1 "New York Times" bestseller The death of a journalistleads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, interms of spycraft, even "he" has something to learn if he wants toprevent a former KGB colonel from delivering Russia's mostsophisticated weapons to al-Qaeda.
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, forthat matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, livesin a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. Thevoice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And thegreen-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, hisresponsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: atragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. Anadman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning;a fantasist who can only remember the past' - Independent 'Grippingand remarkably imagined' - London Review of Books
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopicfraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic subthrough a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in hisbrain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.
GRIGORI BULGANOV ONCE SAVED GABRIEL ALLON'S LIFE INMOSCOW--AND ALLON REPAYS HIS DEBTS. SO WHEN THE FORMER RUSSIANINTELLIGENCE OFFICER VANISHES, ALLON GATHERS HIS TEAM OFOPERA-TIVES TO GO AFTER THOSE RESPONSIBLE. BUT, IN A RUNNING BATTLETHAT RAGES ACROSS THE GLOBE, HE SOON REALIZES THAT HIS ENEMY MAYALREADY HOLD THE KEY TO VICTORY--AND THAT IF HE CONTINUES,IT WILLCOST HIM MORE THAN HE CAN BEAR……
Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earthscientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, alunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilationof the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They haveforeseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? Thesefew beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth'ssurvival.
With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ever see civilization again-especially when they're swept off by a raging storm to the shores of an uncharted island.
His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad
