The epic of the Apollo missions told in the astronauts'own words and gorgeously illustrated with their photographs Andrew Chaikin's A Man on the Moon isconsidered the definitive history of the Apollo moonmissions-arguably the pinnacle of human experience. Now, usingnever-before-published quotes taken from his in-depth interviewswith twenty-three of the twenty-four Apollo lunar astronauts,Chaikin and his collaborator, Victoria Kohl, have created anextraordinary account of the lunar missions. In Voices from theMoon the astronauts vividly recount their experiences inintimate detail; their distinct personalities and remarkably variedperspectives emerge from their candid and deeply personalreflections. Carefully assembled into a narrative that reflects theentire arc of the lunar journey, Voices from the Moon captures the magnificence of the Apollo program like no other book.Paired with their own words are 160 images taken from NASA's newhigh-resolution scans of the photos the astronauts took during themis

A rich, authoritative look at a material that plays anessential role in human culture Wood has been a central part of human life throughout the world forthousands of years. In an intoxicating mix of science, history, andpractical information, historian and woodworker Harvey Greenconsiders this vital material's place on the planet. What makes onewood hard and one soft? How did we find it, tame it? Where does itfit into the histories of technology, architecture, andindustrialization, of empire, exploration, and settlement? Spanningthe surprising histories of the log cabin and Windsor chair, thedeep truth about veneer, the role of wood in the AmericanRevolution, the disappearance of the rain forests, the botanybehind the baseball bat, and much more, Wood is a deep andsatisfying look at one of our most treasured resources.

In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from exotic Australia. And Munro shows us how one woman's romantic tale of capture and escape in the high Balkans may end up inspiring another woman who is fleeing a husband and lover in present-day Canada. "Open Secrets is a book that dazzles with its faith in language and in life."--New York Times Book Review

The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that"delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (SeattleTimes). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is calledto a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family forover two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive andhandsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, anddaughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, aswell as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted bysomething more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr.Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story isabout to become intimately entwined with his.

"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddishstoryteller." -O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years afterits original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in thecolorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans tenyears and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel andLeibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia whofall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together theyrun away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tourseparately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York.Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story,and an anthem for the magic of the theater.

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels.It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones,the hero of the book,is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune,followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune,teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-hearted-ness. This‘comic,epic poem in prose’will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears.Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society,for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century,full of thieves and adventurers,rogues and a robust,unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality.'

For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about herlife in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was onlythree when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldierand went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence ofthe past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna,Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald. Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor ofGerman history, begins investigating the past and finally unearthsthe dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life. Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation oflife during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, ThoseWho Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure tosurvive and the legacy of shame.

The long-awaited reissue of "New York Times" bestsellerCatherine anderson's "truly spectacular read" (Linda Lael Miller).Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the Texas plains for a quiet life asa teacher in Oregon. Then, out of the shadows comes Swift Antelope,the Comanche warrior to whom she once pledged her heart. But Amy'sbrutal past has made it impossible for her to trust any man-eventhe bold warrior who has haunted her dreams, the only man she everloved, the Comanche heart she can't live without...

Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at theSecret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidentialcandidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the manwhose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. SeanKing knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, thehard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to bediverted for a split second. And the candidate he was protectingwas gunned down before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about tosee their destinies converge. Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets,and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover ashocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shatteredtheir lives were really a long time in the making-and are a longway from over

Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine, havesold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil thisside of hell.

In Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable youngman sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included inthe volume are three of the Irish master storyteller's shortworks.

Based on Charlotte Bronte's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels. Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude. Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid social order, it is also a story of a woman’s right to love and be loved.

Tock--your time is up Bennett enliststhe help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. As hisaffection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationshipwith Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. All too soon, anotherappalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposesthe killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.From the creator of the #1 New York detective series comes the mostvolatile and most explosive Michael Bennett novel ever.

This novel,first published in 1817,achieved a huge success and helped establish the historical novel as a literary form.In rich prose and vivid de*ion,Rob Roy follows the adventures of a businessman's son,Frank Osbaldistone,who is sent to Scotland and finds himself drawn to the powerful,enigmatic figure of Rob Roy MacGregor,the romantic outlaw who fights for justice and dignity for the Scots.This is an incomparable portrait of the haunted Highlands and Scotland's glorious past.

The perfect life A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would doanything to protect the life she's built in New York--includinglying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when aninnocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let himpay for the real killer's crimes. The perfect lie Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for,a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West.When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, herhappiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina's world is shatteredwhen she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for herlife and change her identity. The perfect way to die Now, years later, Nina risks everything she's earned to return toFlorida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story ofwrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his mosthead-spinning, action-filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend ofunquenchable drama and pleasure.

Baldacci's instant New York Times bestselling thriller is thestory of a ragtag group of conspiracy theorists who gather to findthe hidden truth behind the actions of the power elite inWashington, D.C.

The story of 'Little Nell' gripped the nation when it first appeared. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', it tells of Nell uprooted from a secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world where evil takes many shapes, the most fascinating of which is the stunted, lecherous Quilp. He is Nell's tormenter and destroyer, and it is his demonic energy that dominates the book.

当卡米莉家乡的几名女孩被谋杀后，由于工作的原因，她被迫回到那个古老南方贵族与吸毒青年共同生活的地方。随着卡米莉揭露杀害那些女孩的凶手以及杀人动机的谜底，《利器》这个故事使读者在心理上产生了深度困扰：卡米莉为何如此坚定地去调查这些被害的女孩？卡米莉与她母亲之间发生了什么？这件事是怎样与多年前她另一个妹妹的死联系到一起的？ When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri,journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to reporton the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from hermother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed onceagain in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with herdistant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violentcrimes, she finds hersel

New York Times bestselling master of suspense Steve Martinireturns, ensnaring defense attorney Paul Madriani in a web ofterror and death being spun in the shadows of America's most sacredand secretive institution—the Supreme Court. A writer is savagely slain while on a publicity tour—a literaryprovocateur who craved headlines, but whose last book may have gonetoo far. His revelations about secret language buried in the U.S.Constitution—and hints about an explosive missing letter of ThomasJefferson's—may be enough to cause an irreparable tear in thefabric of the nation . . . and perhaps drove a volatile youth tohomicide. But Paul Madriani thinks a troubled young man with darkconnections has been chosen as a scapegoat to cover up somethingfar deadlier that festers in America's political heart. And in thewake of the strange disappearance of a Supreme Court judge,Madriani must survive long enough to find the devastating answershidden in the shadow of power.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Costantinople, awakes to find that he is a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge LuisBorges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodieas Report," hereturned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutalrealism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories,including aUnworthya and aThe Other Duel, a are set in the machoArgentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists aresuffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes offate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flickerin the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best Borgesever wrote.

The life and times of Everyone's favorite thief Filled with action, villains, and surprises, the legend lives on.Days of old bursting with pageantry, knights, and beautiful maidensreturn in a superb edition of this favorite classic story.