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

Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac tobe the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare,classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father'shysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. Oneof the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-centuryFrench provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whomnothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of thehuman animal to understand and illuminate its own condition. Translated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R.Jameson Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor ofComparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. Hispublications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures ofthe Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Take a journey of imagination. In this all-time favorite, Phileas Fogg and his manservant set out to win a wager by travelling around the world in 80 days. They embark on a fantastic, action-packed journey into a world filled with danger and beauty, from India to the American frontier.

Beautiful Chiara is smitten by the brilliant but pennilessdoctor Salvatore. Desiring the unwilling Salvatore as a futurehusband, she engages in a series of comic attempts to land herobject of affection, only to create a greater chasm between thestar-crossed would-be lovers.

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.

The brutal world of the Klondike miners and their dogs is brilliantly evoked and Jack London's rendering of the sentient life of Buck and White Fang as they confront their destiny is en-thralling and convincing.The deeper resonance of these stories derives from the author's use of the myth of the hero who survives by strength and courage,a powerful myth that still appeals to our collective unconsceious.

Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees ofGombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behaviorever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologistLouis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in thewild might shed light on the behavior of our Stone Age ancestors.Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she setup camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania.For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the jungle from dawnuntil dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. Atlast came the day when she was accepted and no longer feared. Shewas able to record previously unknown behavior, such as theuse--and even the making--of tools, until then believed to be anexclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps asindividuals, she deciphered their complicated social hierarchy,their rituals, and many other extraordinary behaviors, which haveforever changed our understanding of the profound connectionb

Offers a detailed, fact-filled examination of the AirborneTask Force, complete with exclusive photographs, illustrations,diagrams, and an extensive interview with the commander of the 18thAirborne Corps, General John Keen. Original."

Believe the Power In a secluded house not far from Washington,D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnessesit has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith hasdone too much, knows too much, and she'll tell too much. Believethe Suspense Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world,Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigatorwalks into the middle of the assassination attempt, the shootingsuddenly goes wrong, and an FBI agent is killed. Believe theAstounding New Story That Only David Baldacci could Write... NowFaith Lockhart must flee for her life-with her story, with herdeadly secret, and with an unknown man she's forced to trust...

Founded and directed by GoldenGlobe-nominated actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hitRECord is an opencollaborative production company where members can contribute theirwork in various forms including music, videos, text and drawings.Members are then encouraged to add, edit, remix and collaboratewith each other. HitRECord currently has over 45,000 active membersworldwide. Over 1,000 creative contributions are added daily andover 100 new artists join hitRECord each day. Joe regularly hostshitRECord events throughout the country at venues ranging from theSundance and SxSW film festivals to college campuses to grandcinemas to rock roll bars to concert halls, with audiencesranging from 100 to 1,500 people. In December 2010, hitRECordself-published the first volume in the "Tiny Stories" series. Thecollaboration received over 2,300 contributions, from which Joe andthe creative collective edited together 32 illustrated stories.This volume in the "Tiny Stories" series will contain all newmaterial created through the sam

The vision has haunted him for four years--a youngwoman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silentsupplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murdercase when the production assistant's death was linked with theviolent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both fileswere never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch isdetermined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to opendoors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even inthe face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he'sever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.

On the eve of the Russian Revolution, Frank Reid, a strugglingBritish-born printer in Moscow, is abandoned by his wife and isleft to care for his three children while keeping his businessafloat.

Cicero’s speeches "In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina,""In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus," "In Defence of GaiusRabirius," "Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo,"and "In Defence of King Deiotarus" provide insight into Roman life,law, and history.

For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following thepath of duty takes precedence over personal desires For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessmanin a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed world of theSang household—a place of public ceremony and privatecruelty—fulfilling her duty means bearing a male heir. The life that has been forced on her makes Feng bitter andresentful, and she plots a terrible revenge. But with the passingyears comes a reckoning, and Feng must reconcile herself with thesacrifices and terrible choices she has made in order to assure herplace in the family and society—even as the violent, relentlesstide of revolution engulfs her country. Both a sweeping historical novel and an intimate portrait of onewoman’s struggle against tradition, All the Flowers in Shanghaimarks the debut of a sensitive and revelatory writer. Show More Show Less

When Web London's FBI Hostage Negotiation Team is ambushed ina dark alley, Web is the only survivor. As the FBI investigates,suspicion surrounding Web deepens. Now, he needs help from anunlikely ally in his desperate search for the killer of hisfriends, and finds himself up against a force intent on finishingthe job that began in the alley.

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 his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unitfor the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is calledout to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences fornational security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactivesubstance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing hissteps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium wasstolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium inunknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terroristplot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against theculprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security andthe FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), whoare convinced that this case is too important for the likes of theLAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.

Lara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, but suddenly that imagination seems to be in overdrive. Normal professionaltwenty-something young women don't get visitedby ghosts. Or do they? When the spirit of Lara'sgreat-aunt Sadie mysteriously appears, she has onerequest: Lara must find a missing necklace that hadbeen in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. Lara and Sadie make a hilarious sparring duo, and atfirst it seems as though they have nothing in common.But as the mission to find Sadie's necklace leads tointrigue and a new romance for Lara, these very'different "twenties" girls learn some surprisingtruths from and about each other.

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.

As part of Back Bay's ongoing effort to make the works ofJohn Fowles available in uniform trade paperback editions, twomajor works in the Fowles canon are reissued to coincide with thepublication of Wormholes, the author's long-awaited new collectionof essays and occasional writings. Perhaps the most beloved of Fowles's internationally bestsellingworks, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductivestorytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel."Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically eroticpossibilities" (New York Times), the novel inspired the hugelysuccessful 1981 film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons and istoday universally regarded as a modern classic. In A Maggot, originally published in 1985, Fowles reaches backto the eighteenth century to offer readers a glimpse into thefuture. Time magazine called the result "hypnotic....A remarkableachievement. Part detective story, part crackling courtroomdrama....An immensely rich and readable novel".

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships, marriage and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War.

The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez'sdaring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired thecritically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, andco-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the Americanembassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics stillreverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected tothe crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officernamed Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky planto rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by acast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents,and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehranunder the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fictionfilm called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect filmbackdrops, Mendez and a

The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman--is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demo

Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. Ajob at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as aplane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes.And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. TotalDanger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global,the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give hisfamily the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into adeadly game. He is about to disappear-leaving behind a wife whomust sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wantsto know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBIagent who wants to know it all...