With a heart full of dreams, Sallie Coleman leaves Texas and heads west determined to get as far from the squalor of her dirt poor beginnings. With its shifting sands, smoky saloons and bingo palaces, Las Vegas seems like a paradise....

In one of the first titles in the Atlantic Monthly Press's Books That Changed the World series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary Wealth of Nations so you don't have to.

This gripping book has extortion, prostitution, government corruption, group sex and murder at its core. IIt's set in New York State—Pleasant Valley is near Poughkeepsie.Amazingly, the killer, Dawn Silvernail, who refused to speak ...

With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heels in love. Sensitiv...

'What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that - the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my la...

From the bestselling author of A History of the World in Six Glasses, this is a riveting history of humanity told through the foods we eat.Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance; it has acted as a tool o...

First in the new Shadowspan series from the New York Times bestselling 'master of speculative fiction' (Library Journal). Eons ago, Homo Lupens ruled the earth. Possessing extraordinary powers, they were the source of all of the my...

WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists. Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history of Britain and Ireland.

From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says t...

In this early work by critically acclaimed mystery writer Lawrence Block, Joe Marlin, a con man, rogue, and confirmed bachelor, meets his match in Mona Brassard, who just may be more slippery then he is. Originally published in 1961 w...

From New York Times blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the astonishing final episode of the Harte family saga.Just Rewards is the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte’s great gran...

DIVAfter ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through thirty–eight states, seeing pret...

Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to educati...

Time ItseLf is SLIntERINg.Abducted to 1763, Peter Schock and Kate Dyer begin to understand that history has reached a tipping point. The antigravity machine is in the hands of the cruel and ambitious Lord Luxon -- who has set his sigh...

Though the head of a major multinational corporation -- and a key player in world affairs -- Samuel Walker Cox has a past that few people know about. But that group is about to get bigger. A computer disk has fallen into the hands of ...

Accepting a Newport internship that she hopes will launch her television journalism career, Grace Callahan confronts a fourteen-year-old mystery hidden beneath the city's mansions when a killer begins targeting her fellow contenders. ...

The rich, good-looking, fast-living members of the Castelli family return in DEADLY EMBRACE. Beautiful journalist Madison Castelli travels to New York to help her father, Michael, beat a murder rap. There, she teams up with her best f...

Available only on audio...a seven-step plan for understanding the power you were born with!In the #1 bestsellers The Secret and Notes from the Universe, Mike Dooley told millions of readers and listeners about the magic that the Unive...

Available for the first time on audio, a beautiful, heart-rending tale of love, loss, and honor from the bestselling author of Winter's Tale! On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuli...

Lake of DreamsThea Marlow had encountered her soul mate in the depths of her overpowering, frightening dreams. Now, on the shores of a country lake, the stranger comes to her in the flesh - and lures her into a timeless love. Blue Moo...

Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advise on how to live, comes Byron Katie and what she calls 'The Work.' The Work is a revolutionary new way to resolve problems, so simple that even a child can do it, ...

Psychologist Alex Delaware hasn't been in private practice for a long time, but when the mother of a former patient calls and asks for his help, he can't turn her down. He couldn't help Lauren Teague when she was alive, but somethi...

In BLANK IS BEAUTIFUL, Klein explores the deeply-rooted impulse to erase what is inconvenient and start over from scratch. This journey takes her back to two formative experiments in the 1950s, both funded by the U.S. government. One ...

Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's? How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease? Why do bad teams win so many games? ...

What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor - an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene - seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though...

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his. For eight years, America has been led by a president hell-bent on aggressive foreign policy and re-building the nation on Christian va...

Location: north of the Arctic Circle, Population: 150 (mostly men!) But the three O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane charter service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign to bring women to town.Brides for Brothers:Sawyer...

Single mom Dori Robertson is suddenly under pressure to find a new father for her eleven-year-old son. And he's already chosen the guy – former pro-football player Gavin Parker. As it turns out, Gavin's daughter wants her dad to mar...

Forensic evidence is on trial in the third legal thriller to feature defense attorney Amanda Jaffe. Two men, indicted in two seemingly unrelated murders, keep insisting on their innocence despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary....

Adapted from Decoded, Meltzer's hit show on the HISTORY network, History Decoded explores fascinating, unexplained questions. Is Fort Knox empty? Why was Hitler so intent on capturing the Roman 'Spear of Destiny'? What's the governmen...