From Chile to California, South Africa to Alsace, RalphSteadman has seen the best of the world's wine-producing regions.On a search for the unique and original, he meets Aurelio Montes,the Chilean winemaker who planted syrah vines on a rocky,south-facing hill in order to "steal the wild complexity of themountain's soul." In Spain, he learns of the white chalky soilcalled albariza that produces the sherry of the Jerez region. InCalifornia, the author describes crossing the Golden Gate Bridge,driving up into Marin County, and meeting enthusiastic winemakerswhose vineyards sit precariously on the San Andreas fault. As thejourney continues on through Burgundy, Champagne, and Sicily,Steadman brings the landscape and its people to life with picturesand prose.

After the Band of Brothers went home, they never forgotthe lessons of war... After chronicling the personal stories of the Bandof Brothers in We Who Are Alive and Remain , author MarcusBrotherton presents a collection of remembrances from the familiesof the soldiers of Easy Company-and how their wartime experiencesshaped their lives off the battlefield. A Company of Heroes is an intimate, revealing portrait ofthe lives of the men who fought for our freedom during some of thedarkest days the world has ever known-men who returned home with anewfound wisdom and honor that they passed onto their families, andthat continue to inspire new generations of Americans.

No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night." Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands hisbusiness into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clientsaccused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take awayher home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel,even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his clientis guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black marketdealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certainhe's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the bestdefense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comesafter the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he "may verywell be the best novelist working in the United States today"( San Francisco Chronicle ).

Wgen beaufifuf,unmarrie Vianne Rocger sweeps into the pinched little French town of Lansquenet on the heels of the carnival and opens a gem of a chocolate shop across the square from the church,she begins to wreak havoc with the towns Lenten vows.Her uncanny ability to Perceive her customers private discontents and alleviate them with just the right confection coaxes the villagers to abandon themselves to temptation and happiness,but enrages Pere Reynaud,the local priest.Certain only a witch could stir such sinful indulgence and devise such clever sures,Reynaud pits himself againat Vianne and vows to block the chocolate festival she plans for Easter Sunday,and to run her out of town forever.Witch or not(shell never tell),Vianne soon sparks a dramatic confrontation between those who prefer the cold comforts of the church and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure.

There are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night. At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it. Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night, their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet of Moonlight Bay.... Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town's most carefully kept, most ominous secret—a secret only he can uncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary at one with the most

For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel ChandlerHarris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers.Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's mostpopular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales,etiological myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories.Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers,indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other BrerRabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to WilliamFaulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helpedrevolutionize modern children's literature and folktalecollecting.

In this novel, symptomatic of Lawrence's later work, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow visiting Mexico, finds herself equally repelled and fascinated by what she sees as the primitive cruelty of the country. As she becomes involved with Don Ramon and General Cipriano, her perceptions change. Caught up in the plans of these two men to revive the old Aztec religion and political order, she submits to the 'blood-consciousness' and phallic power that they represent.

THE CASUAL VACANCY J.K. Rowling Book De*ion： When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties,the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled marketsquare and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?adeis a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wivesat war with their husbands, teachers at war with theirpupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soonbecomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yetseen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicityand unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought‐provoking and constantly surprising, TheCasual Vacancy is J.K.Rowling’s first novel for adults. Author Profile: J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter seriesof seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have soldmore tha

Someone--or something--masquerading as Skeeve the Magnificentis racking up hundreds of thousands of gold pieces of debt. It's upto Aahz the Pervect (not pervert ) to find the myth-creant and putan end to the shopping spree.

Here is the beloved, high-adventure story of David Balfour,whose uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and has him kidnappedand sold into slavery. An odyssey ensues, including a shipwreck,narrow escapes, and desperate fighting.

Rusty Sabich is a prosecuting lawyer in Chicago who enters a nightmare world when Carolyn, a beautiful attorney with whom he has been having an affair, is found raped and strangled. He stands accused of the crime. This 'insider' book by a Chicago lawyer was one of the great novels of the 1980s, selling more than nine million copies, and was made into a famous film starring Harrison Ford. It's a supremely suspenseful and compelling courtroom drama about ambition, weakness, hypocrisy and American justice.

From "the funniest important writer in America" (Miami Herald)comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and nowavailable in trade paperback for the first time.

"The best novel to come out of America-or England-for ageneration." -V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow,a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex ofNew York City. Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wifeaway on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from aGotham heat wave, only to be accosted in the park by adown-at-the-heels stranger who accuses Leventhal of ruining hislife. Unable to shake the stranger loose, Leventhal is led by hisown self-doubts and suspicions into a nightmare of paranoia andfear.

Take the guesswork out of gardening. Instead of thedisappointments of trial and error, you can get it right the firsttime with the help of the editors of "the best guides on themarket" (Garden Design magazine). Roses are the prima donnas amonggarden flowers, but they don't have to be difficult andtemperamental if you choose the right ones for your garden. In thiseasy-to-use book you'll find: *Roses tht are hardy in the coldestparts of the U.S. and Canada *Roses that love the heat of the South*Roses that bloom from spring to fall *Roses for ground covers andhedges *Roses that require no spraying *The best of the primadonnas--the ones that are really worth the care they require

Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has neverbeen so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job.Kate Danielsmay have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she's still knee-deepin paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone tohire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging thanshe thought it would be-now that the Order is disparaging her goodname, and many potential clients are afraid of getting on the badside of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate's mate.So whenAtlanta's premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with avampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work.Turns out this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to getto the bottom of it-fast, or the city and everyone dear to hermight pay the ultimate price.

Starting with a rush-hour subway ride to South Station inBoston to catch the Lake Shore Limited to Chicago, Theroux winds upon the poky, wandering Old Patagonian Express steam engine, whichcomes to a halt in a desolate land of cracked hills and thornbushes. But with Theroux the view along the way is what matters:the monologuing Mr. Thornberry in Costa Rica, the bogus priest ofCali, and the blind Jorge Luis Borges, who delights in havingTheroux read Robert Louis Stevenson to him.

Acclaimed short-story master George Singleton follows the livesand schemes of the citizens of fictitious Gruel, South Carolina, insearch of glory, seclusion, money, revenge, and a meaningfulexistence. In these nineteen tales, young Gruelites learn lessonswhen confronted with neighbors who might not be as blind as theyappear, dermatologists intent on eradicating birthmarks, andfathers prone to driving on half-inflated tires in order to flirtwith cashiers. Meanwhile, the town's older citizens try to makesense out of dogs that heal wounds, lawn-mowing dead men, wives whodon't appreciate gas masks for Valentine's Day, and children whomix their mother's ashes with housepaint. Hilarious and tragic,George Singleton's unforgettable characters try to overcome theirlimitations as best they can.

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuringthe beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque Englishcottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows inpureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfectmother to twins Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just intime -- so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by avisiting archaeologist's excavation.With Reginald, the stuffed pinkrabbit and Edmond Terrance, the stuffed tiger in tow, Lori huntsdown a missing document, and the archaeologist digs up a lot morethan artifacts. It is Aunt Dimity's magic blue notebook thatprovides the key to buried secrets and domestic malice, and showsall the residents of Finch that even the darkest acts can beovercome by forgiveness.

Mercenary Kate Daniels cleans up urban problems of a paranormalkind. But her latest prey, a pack of undead warriors, presents hergreatest challenge.