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You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You'veprobably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style–themost widely read and employed English style manual–is available ina specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title'svast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantlybound edition of this time-tested classic. Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999,the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a briefoverview of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively byindividual writers as well as high school and college students ofwriting, it has conveyed the principles of English style tomillions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect giftfor writers of any age and ability level.

From the moment these two legendary players took the court onopposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychologicalbattle. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick,with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jumpshot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him andwhose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. MagicJohnson was Mr. Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the rightmoves. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold.And he burned with an inextinguishable desire to win. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize themost thrilling rivalry in the NBA—East vs. West, physical vs.finesse, old school vs. Showtime, even white vs. black. Each pushedthe other to greatness, and together Bird and Johnson collectedeight NBA Championships and six MVP awards, helping to save afloundering NBA. At the start they were bitter rivals, but alongthe way they became lifelong friends.

Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for findingadventure. But ever since Sophie convinced her friends to startholding regular seances, life in Los Angeles is getting a littletoo dramatic even for Toots' tastes. When Ida receives a messagesuggesting that her late husband was murdered, Toots decides it'stime the Godmothers left L.A. for her hometown ofCharleston...Meanwhile, Mavis has been acting suspiciously andrefuses to divulge what she's up to. She should know by now thatIda, Toots, and Sophie will never let secrets rest or ignore afriend in need. And when the Godmothers discover that whoeverkilled Ida's husband has plans for Ida too, they'll do what they dobest - rally together, concoct a daring plan, and show the worldthere is no match for these formidable friends...

A new book of poems by Wis?awa Szymborska is a rare andexciting event. These twenty-seven poems, as rendered byprize-winning translators Clare Cavanagh and Stanis?aw Baranczak,are among her greatest ever. Whether writing about her teenageself, microscopic creatures, or the upsides to living on Earth, sheremains a virtuoso of form, line, and thought. From the title poem: I can't speak for elsewhere, but here on Earth we've got a fairsupply of everything.Here we manufacture chairs and sorrows,scissors, tenderness, transistors, violins, teacups, dams, andquips . . . Like nowhere else, or almost nowhere, you're given your own torsohere, equipped with the accessories required for adding your ownchildren to the rest.Not to mention arms, legs, and astonishedhead.

In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her--she must count on herself. Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences.

Book De*ion Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? Whenairline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, andstewardesses catered to our every need-at least in ourimaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspokenyoung ladies, who lived and loved the free-spirited stewardesslife, jets you back to those golden days of air travel-from thecaptain who's as subtle as a 747 when he's on the make to thepassenger who mistakes the overhead luggage rack for an upperberth; from the names of celebrities who were a pleasure to serve(and some surprising notables on the "bad guy" list) to the originsof some naughty stereotypes-Spaniards "are" the best lovers, actorsthe most foul-mouthed. This huge bestseller, a First Class jet-agejournal, offers a hilarious gold mine of outrageous anecdotes fromthe high-flying and amorous lives of those busty, lusty,adventuresome young women of the swinging '60s known as"stews." About Author Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones were name

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walkerspeaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist inthirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Amongthe contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civilrights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and herdaughters healing words.

city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature.

First published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin, TimO'Brien's celebrated classic In the Lake of the Woods now returnsto the house in a gorgeous new Mariner paperback edition. Thisriveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The ThingsThey Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century'slegacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. Whenlong-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnamcome to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with hiswife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days oftheir arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the waterywilderness.

Tim O'Brien's modern classic that reset our understanding offiction, nonfiction, and the way they can work together, as well asour understanding of the Vietnam war and its consequences, TheThings They Carried now has well over a million copies inprint.

Starred Review. Grade 8 Up–The names of rock bands are used for chapter titles in this intriguing, fast-paced sequel to Peeps (Penguin, 2005), and music permeates the novel. While mysterious, dark happenings have taken over New York City's hot, humid summer (black water bubbling from faucets and hydrants, and rats congregating in packs on city streets), Moz, an aspiring guitarist, and his closest associate, Zahler, search for promising musicians to complete their sound. One night, as Moz tries to save a vintage 1975 Fender Stratocaster as it is inexplicably thrown out of an apartment window, he meets Pearl, an attractive and slightly off-center musical genius. With the help of Zahler, they recruit a street drummer named Alana Ray, and Pearl convinces her talented singer friend Minerva, who is recuperating from a serious illness that appears to have left her with a strange desire for human blood, to join them. Moz and Pearl work through power issues as they become closer. And as the danger to New York

A behind-the-scenes, intensley-researched look at the blue-bloodscandal that has riveted not just New York but the world. When thebeloved Mrs. Astor's only child Anthony Marshall was indicted oncharges of looting her estate, the story was covered by the entirenational press corps as well as newspapers way beyond our borders.The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with astoried name who gave away nearly $200 million to the city--and didso with incomparable class and style--has generated headlines eversince the story broke in 2006 that her grandson Philip had sued hisfather alleging mistreatment of Brooke.