One of the truly legendary figures of American history, thesoldier, explorer, and colonist Captain John Smith was a vivid andprolific chronicler of the beginnings of English settlement in theNew World. This volume brings together seven of his works, alongwith 16 additional narratives by 13 other writers, that recountfirsthand the tragic, harrowing, and dramatic events of thesettlement of Roanoke and Jamestown. A founder of Jamestown in 1607, Smith's courage, determination,and leadership proved crucial to its survival. A True Relationtells of the colony's perilous first year, while The Proceedingsand The Generall Historie continue the story of its struggle tosurvive and prosper. A De*ion of New England and New EnglandsTrials describe Smith's exploration of the northern coast and theprospects for its settlement. In The True Travels Smith recalls hisadventures as a soldier in Eastern Europe and his amazing escapefrom Turkish slavery. Advertisements for the UnexperiencedPlanters, his last book, is a

Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that allhas changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city heleft eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain,Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, noterrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his workand the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant,he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefullyprotected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rashmoment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-9/11 Manhattanfor his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But fromthe time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitudefor the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jamie, whose alluredraws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy,the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with afigure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse toZuckerman's first literary hero, E. I. Lonoff.

Walking a lonely forested valley on a spring morning inupstate New York, having been hired by a developer to dowse theland, Cassandra Brooks comes upon the shocking vision of a younggirl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities to thesite, the body has vanished, leaving in question Cassandra’scredibility if not her sanity. The next day, on a return visit withthe sheriff to have another look, a dazed, mute missing girlemerges from the woods, alive and the very picture of Cassandra’shanged girl. What follows is the narrative of ever-deepening and increasinglybizarre divinations that will lead this gifted young woman, thestruggling single mother of twin boys, hurtling toward a past she’dlong since thought was behind her. The Diviner’s Tale is at once ajourney of self-discovery and an unorthodox murder mystery, a taleof the fantastic and a family chronicle told by an otherwiseordinary woman. When Cassandra’s dark forebodings take on tangible form, she isforced to confront

One of the bestselling novels of all time, Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers aroundthe world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historiclocations—over 160 images—are beautifully compiled in thisfull-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. Adesperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. Anastonishing truth concealed for centuries… unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdonreceives an urgent late-night phone call. The elderly curator ofthe Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, a baffling cipherfound near the body. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist,Sophie Neveu, sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned todiscover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci–cluesvisible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by thepainter. The stakes are raised when Langdon uncovers a startling link: thelat

In the early twentieth century, as China came up against the realities of the modern world, Lu Xun effected a shift in Chinese letters away from the ornate, obsequious literature of the aristocrats to the plain, expressive literature of the masses. His celebrated short stories assemble a powerfully unsettling portrait of the superstition, poverty, and complacency that he perceived in late imperial China and in the revolutionary republic that toppled the last dynasty in 1911. This volume presents Lu Xun's complete fiction in bracing new translations and includes such famous works as "The Real Story of Ah-q," "Diary of a Madman," and "The Divorce." Together they expose a contradictory legacy of cosmopolitan independence, polemical fractiousness, and anxious patriotism that continues to resonate in Chinese intellectual life today. 作者简介： Lu Xun (1881-1936) studied to be a doctor before turning to writing as the self-appointed literary physician of China's spiritual ills. After his death, he

Smart, tough Los Angeles FBI agents Jack Harper and OscarHidalgo meet their match in a diamond smuggler, Steinbach, whoseems to have almost superhuman powers. Arrested during a cleversting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will killthem, and sure enough, one by one, they start to die. Worse, Jackcan't begin to pin it on Steinbach, who is, after all, in prison.Soon, however, Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and isfreed with total immunity. Jack is pretty sure that he and Oscarcould be next. But, as it turns out, Steinbach is not the onlymenace. Two of the agents who were killed turn out to be dirty.Jack and Oscar tour the seamy side of L.A. in hopes of findingclues, but they get way more than they bargained for.

Philip Schultz, winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry,has been celebrated for his singular vision of the Americanimmigrant experience and Jewish identity, his alternately fierceand tender portrayal of family life, and his rich and riotousevocation of city streets. His poems have found enthusiasticaudiences among readers of Garrison Keillor's "Writer's Almanac,""Slate," "The New Yorker," and other publications. His willingnessto face down the demons of failure and loss, in his previous bookparticularly, make him a poet for our times, a poet who can write"If I have to believe in something, I believe in despair." Yet heremains oddly undaunted: "sometimes, late at night, we, myhappiness and I, reminisce, lifelong antagonists enjoying eachother's company.""The God of Loneliness," a major collection ofSchultz's work, includes poems from his five books ("Like Wings,""Deep Within the Ravine," "The Holy Worm of Praise," "Living in thePast," "Failure") and fourteen new poems. It is a volume tocherish, fro

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundredbooks later, he personally collected twenty-five of his storieswritten before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were firstpublished in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of themappeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by EvanHunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (apseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or HuntCollins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College). Here are kidsin trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs.Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are copsand robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter tobecome Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells howand why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendarycareer.

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

Cozy lovers' favorite otherworldly detective cracks a classiccountry-house case. In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from DownUnder to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normalquickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovatingFairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects aquiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for hisattention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysteriouspainting of a family tree in Fairworth's attic, he discovers thatlife in Finch is anything but quiet. On top of it all, Lori andWilliam are embroiled in a case of deception and false identity byone of Finch's own. It's nothing the plucky Lori can't handle, butonce things get truly peculiar at Fairworth-moving furniture,strange sounds, and mysterious visitors-she calls on Aunt Dimityfor her otherworldly guidance and uncovers the shadowy past beneaththe estate's magnificent surface. Nancy Atherton's titles co

In this long-awaited book, Marcus Samuelsson introduces thesimple techniques and exciting combinations that have won himworldwide acclaim and placed Scandinavian cooking at the forefrontof the culinary scene. Whether it's a freshly interpreted Swedishclassic or a dramatically original creation, each one of the disheshas been flawlessly recreated for the home cook. Every recipe has amasterful touch that makes it strikingly new: the contrastingtemperatures of Warm Beef Carpaccio in Mushroom Tea, the pleasingmix of creamy and crunchy textures in Radicchio, Bibb, and BlueCheese Salad, the cornflake coating on a delightful rendition ofMarcus's favorite "junk food," Crispy Potatoes. In "The Raw and theCured," Marcus presents the cornerstone dishes of the Scandinavianrepertoire, from a traditional Gravlax with Mustard Sauce (whichgets just the right balance from a little coffee) to theinternationally inspired Pickled Herring Sushi-Style. The clean,precise flavors of this food are reminiscent of Japanese cuisi

At the time of his death, Louis Auchincloss--enemy of bores,self-pity, and gossip less than fresh--had just finished taking ona subject he had long avoided: himself. His memoir confirmsthat, despite the spark of his fiction, Auchincloss himself was themost entertaining character he has created. No traitor to his classbut occasionally its critic, he returns us to his Society whichwas, he maintains, less interesting than its members admitted. Youmay differ as he unfurls his life with dignity, summoning hisfamily (particularly his father who suffered from depression andforgave him for hating sports) and intimates. Brooke Astor and hercircle are here, along with glimpses of Jacqueline Onassis. Mostmemorable, though, is his way with those outside the salon: thecranky maid; the maiden aunt, perpetually out of place; theless-than-well-born boy who threw himself from a window over awoman and a man. Here is Auchincloss, an American master,being Auchincloss, a rare eye, a generous and lively spirit to theend

India Palmer, living the cash-strapped existence of thewriter, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine when a yellow biplaneswoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into herlife, one who will change everything. The stranger is Win Johns, aswaggering and intellectually bored trader of mortgage-backedsecurities. Charmed by India's intelligence, humor, and inquisitivenature--and aware of her near-desperate financial situation--Winposes a proposition: "Give me eighteen months and I'll make you aworld-class bond trader." Shedding her artist's life withsurprising ease, India embarks on a raucous ride to the top of theincome chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real estate, neveronce looking back . . . Or does she?With a light-handed irony thatis by turns as measured as Claire Messud's and as biting as TomWolfe's, Martha McPhee tells the classic American story of peoplereinventing themselves, unaware of the price they must pay fortheir transformation.

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fusedhistory, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller,Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakesnovel to date. In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, RobertLangdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one ofhistory’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . .Dante’s Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversaryand grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into alandscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristicscience. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to findanswers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world isirrevocably altered.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill,Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from therest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into itand fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands inthe neighboring town are divided from their families, and carsexplode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where itcame from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, findshimself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper ownerJulia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, aselect-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big JimRennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horriblesecret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Domeitself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.

Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b

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.

Incisive and original, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote with aneloquence that burst the conventions of his discipline and won areadership none of his fellow economists could match. This Libraryof America volume, the first devoted to economics, gathers four ofhis key early works, the books that established him as one of theleading public intellectuals of the last century. In AmericanCapitalism, Galbraith exposes with great panache the myth ofAmerican free-market competition. The idea that an impersonalmarket sets prices and wages, and maintains balance between supplyand demand, remained so vital in American economic thought,Galbraith argued, because oligopolistic American businessmen neveracknowledged their collective power. Also over- looked was the waythat groups such as unions and regulatory agencies react to largeoligopolies by exerting countervailing power--a concept that wasthe book's lasting contribution. The Great Crash, 1929 offers a gripping account of the mostlegendary (and thus misundersto