In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells thestory of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark andviolent past of the family into which they were born. Set in NewYork City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel openswhen Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and careerare crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learningof his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the mostgifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of herart and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to thetoo-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled officesand luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and SusanLowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence,abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying tosave his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. Withpassion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from presentto past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from Wo

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 Einstein in Love , Dennis Overbye has written thefirst profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on hisearly adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It revealsEinstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger,self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismaticgenius who left personal and professional chaos in his wake.Drawing upon hundreds of unpublished letters and a decade ofresearch, Einstein in Love is a penetrating portrait of themodern era's most influential thinker.

THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK has more than lived up to its name.Spanning the complete history of the sport from the fledglingleagues in the late 1870s to the powerhouses of the 1990s andrevealing in the process what a remarkable effect baseball has hadon our collective experience, this is THE book for any and allbaseball fans, certain to grace coffee and bedside tables alike.Designed with that wonderful nostalgia that the sport itself sooften evokes, THE ULTIMATE BASEBALL BOOK combines timeless imageswith a sweeping narrative history as well as essays on variousidols and icons by such heavy hitters as Red Smith, Wilfrid Sheed,Roy Blount, Jr., Tom Wicker, and Geoge Will. This new editioncovers baseball through the nineties, the decade when home runrecords fell and the sport reclaimed its hold on America, andcelebrates the national game in ultimate style.

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

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapesmodern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as adream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knifein the dark - from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began forour narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their carand committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best leftundisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on theloose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stayalive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - withinhis family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it.His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane.The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. Theoldest can remember the Big Bang.

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.

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

After having lost her family and the luxurious life she livedin beautiful Napa, California, Ava Winters finds herself on RebunIsland, Japan, the site of Satoshi Takeda's Revenge School. There,Ava meets Reena, Jon, Cruz, and Jane. At Revenge School, Ava alsomeets Emily Thorne who has recently returned to her training withTakeda. Emily shares her wisdom about Revenge and the importance oflooking for justice in a world where their enemies have thrived.Jon finds a file in Takeda's office detailing the connective tissuelinking the group currently at Revenge School. He presents Ava andthe others with the information, highlighting the looming May 1stdate of an annual gala in Napa where they will all have theopportunity to address their respective "revengendas." Althoughtheir training is not finished, the group feels the time is rightto set out on their mission. Assuming the delicious melodramatictone of the show, the book will reveal twists, turns, murder,collusion and deception. SCHOOLED IN REVENGE will also

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

The definitive story of the Red Sox, a best-selling classic, nowexpanded and updated to include the incredible 2004 season andWorld Series win. In that magic fall of 2004, the Boston Red Soxtransformed themselves from an unruly band of self-proclaimedidiots into world champions for the first time in eighty-six years.Their unlikely triumph became known instantly as one of the mostthrilling, nerve-racking, and ultimately inspiring sports storiesever. And it also changed the course of history for a franchisethat had long been known more for its failures than for itssuccesses. In Red Sox Century, "the best of the Sox sages" (USAToday Baseball Weekly) chronicle the complete history of thisenduring team with authority, insight, and high style. From theteam's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it wonits fifth World Series, to the glory years, which saw the rise ofsuch greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and the"impossible dream," to the near misses in 1975, 1986, and 2003, andfina

MEET: Joyce, the foul-mouthed and wildly successful curator ofa controversial art exhibit on surveillance, who unexpectedly findsherself under surveillance--in her own bedroom. Her best friend,Bobbie, a gynecologist--driven, poised, and in control--a woman whofinally finds love at fiftysomething and watches, horrified, as herperfectly ordered world crumbles around her. Bobbie's patient,Lisa, a former juvenile offender and habitual runaway, who oncedreamed of fame working as Joyce's gallery assistant and is nowstruggling with her new identity as a banker's wife and dotingmother. Lisa's sister, Lynne, a middle-aged suburban mother whosepenchant for home decorating conceals her troubled marriage andblinding desire to exact revenge for a childhood injustice. Jordan,Lynne's sixteen-year-old daughter, a former straight-A student andaspiring model who, no longer fitting in at school or at home,takes a part-time job at a supermarket to spite her mother--andfinds a close confidant in her thirtyyear-old male bos

In Blindness, a city is overcome by an epidemic ofblindness that spares only one woman. She becomes a guide for agroup of seven strangers and serves as the eyes and ears for thereader in this profound parable of loss and disorientation. Wereturn to the city years later in Saramago’s Seeing, asatirical commentary on government in general and democracy inparticular. Together here for the first time, this beautifuledition will be a welcome addition to the library of any Saramagofan.

Review An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement. -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Review An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Product De*ion Now Available in a box set-the first four Dark Tower Books -- with new material from the author! The Gunslinger The Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands Wizard and Glass In this brilliant series, Stephen King introduced readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. Roland's quest for the Dark Tower took readers on a wildly epic ride-through parallel worlds and across time. A classic tale of colossal scope-crossing over terrain from The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, The Talisman, Black House, Hearts in Atlantis, Salem's Lot, and other familiar King haunts-the adventure took hold with the turn of each pag

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

Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of EnnetHouse, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and studentsat the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search forthe master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerouslyentertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state ofcatatonic bliss