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...
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in theRoyal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces witha heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews withscores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters neverbefore seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishopre-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating,exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describewhat it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go intobattle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of acomrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed thecourse of World War II—and the history of the modern world.
"You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you reallyloved me."Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitterrivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for theattention of their overextended mother, their brilliant butdifficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women,they support each other through a series of devastating deaths,then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives andgroundbreaking works of art. Through everything--marriage, lovers,loss, madness, children, success and failure--the sisters remainthe closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other.Inthis lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter andan elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Sellers imagines her way intothe heart of the lifelong relationship between the writer VirginiaWoolf and the painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity and fidelityto what is known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerfulportrait of sibling rivalry.
Of mixed race and cultures, Barack Obama struggled for years with his identity and place in society. Having found his niche in public service, he has made history as the fifth African American U.S. senator ever to be elected. Now “the skinny kid” continues his political journey and strives to become the nation’s first black president. From Hawaii to Chicago to Washington, D.C., Senator Obama’s life has been interesting and inspiring.
A Tdle of Two Cities(1859) Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the private ires of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyles great work - The French Revolution - and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris. The best story have written was Dickens own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities. and the reader is cinlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical tact with the authors unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering,self-sacrifice, and redemption.
This remarkable and beautiful book documents the period ofexploration and enlightenment when the Old World began to open itsmind to the wonders and mysteries of the New World. Five centuriesof eyewitness accounts, drawings, and notes, taken straight fromthe log books of such famous explorers as Christopher Columbus,Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Gama, James Cook, and many others whonames have been lost, appear in these glowing pages. For the sakeof gold and God, these explorers ventured into the Sea of Darknessfeared for centuries; the detailed documents they compiled are aremarkable testament to their journeys and discoveries. Fran?ois Bellec, a world famous expert in the field of maritimeexploration and history, has assembled a unique document filledwith extraordinary maps drawn by the explorers and theircartographers; fabulous depictions of newly encountered plants,animals, and native people; and detailed illustrations of theadventurers' own vessels and instruments, as well as the boats andinstr
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.
TAO TE CHING IS ANCIENT CHINA'S GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE LITERATURE OF PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND MYSTICISM. TAO TE CHING CONTAINS THE TIME-HONORED TEACHINGS OFTAOISM AND BRINGSA MESSAGE OF LIVING SIMPLY, FINDING CONTENTMENT WITH A MINIMUM OFCOMFORT, AND PRIZING CULTURE ABOVE ALL ELSE. THIS IS THE LAUDED TRANSLATION OF THE EIGHTY-ONE POEMS CONSTITUTING AN EASTERN CLASSIC, THE MYSTICAL AND MORALTEACHINGS OF WHICH HAVE PROFOUNDLY INFLUENCED THE SACRED SCRIPTURES OF MANY RELIGIONS--AND THE LIVES AND HAPPINESS OF COUNTLESS MEN AND WOMEN THROUGH THE CENTURIES. TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BYR. B. BLAKNEY AND WITHANEWAFTERWORD BY RICHARD JOHN LYNN
Adultery us not a typical lane Austen theme, butwhen it disturbs the relatively peaceful householdat Mansfield Park. it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results,re-examining her own feelings while enduring thecheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference andpriggish disapproval of those around her.
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
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
Lori Shepherd and the phantom Aunt Dimity have become one ofthe mystery genreas most celebrated detective duos. In their latestadventure, a pleasant woodland stroll through the Englishcountryside is rudely cut short by the blizzard of the century,forcing Lori to take shelter in Ladythorne Abbeyaan old pile stillhaunted by the presence of the madwoman whose prison it once was.But the abbeyas greatest secret is the priceless jewel it concealssomewhere within its cloistersaan heirloom that hides a treacherouspast that Lorias fellow guests canat wait to get their hands on.Only Aunt Dimityas indispensable wisdom can help Lori unravel amystery that is considerably thicker than the accumulating snow inthis page-turning treat.
Now a classic of the travel genre, The Great Railway Bazaarchronicles Paul Theroux's adventures by rail from Victoria Stationin London to Tokyo Central, told with his signature wryobservations.
The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.
The story of Oedipus has captured the human imagination as few others.It is the story of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother,a man who by a cruel irony brings these things to pass by his very efforts to avoid them.But these plays are not about fate,and not about irnoy.They are about character,choice and consequence.In Antigone we see a woman who will defy human law ,and die for it ,rather than transgress the eternal ,unwritten laws of the gods.Oedipus the Tyrant is the story of a ruler destroyed by those qualities-pride,determination and belief in his own ablitities-which made him ruler in the first place.Finally,in Oedipus at Colonus,written late in Sophocles' life,the aged and blinded king achieves a personal reconciliation,but at a cost-a son who will die in battle against his country,and a daughter who will die burying her brother.
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.
Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more thana decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever CommissarioGuido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover thethreads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integritywhile maneuvering through a city rife with politics, corruption,and intrigue. In "A Noble Radiance" a new landowner is summonedurgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentallyunearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, buta ring found nearby proves to be a first clue that reopens aninfamous case of kidnapping involving one of Venice's mostaristocratic families. Only Commissario Brunetti can unravel theclues and find his way into both the heart of patrician Venice andthat of a family grieving for their abducted son.
Kevin Bradley and his partners are uniquely qualified tohandle cases involving the occult-he and Evan Davis are far morethan the mere mortals they appear to be. Kevin is a powerful daemonlord, and Evan is his half-daemon, half-human son. Solving mortalcrimes should be a cinch for them. But somehow, they never get theeasy, open-and-shut cases.
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war pro
Someone has killed one of the most powerful men in the U.S.Senate - and the whole world is watching. Someone has murdered asmall black girl on the mean streets of Washington - and no oneseems to care. But only D.C. homicide cop Alex Cross suspects thatthe evil striking down both the high and the lowly wears the sameshocking face. From James Patterson, the sensational author of thebestsellers Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, comes Jack Jill, the #1 thriller that breaks all the rules - andshatters every nerve.
It was a desperate plan. But Mary Grace Winters knew the onlyway to save herself and her child from her abusive cop husband wasto stage their own death. Now all that remains of their former lifeis at the bottom of a lake. Armed with a new identity in a newtown, she and her son have found refuge hundreds of miles away. AsCaroline Stewart, she has almost forgotten the nightmare she leftbehind nine years ago. She is even taking a chance on love with MaxHunter, a man with wounds of his own. But her past is about tocollide with the present when her husband uncovers her trail andthreatens her hard-won peace. Step by step, he's closing in on her-and everything and everyone she loves.
