[Munro] continues to perfect her virtuosic formula....While her style typifies the traditionally realistic, often domestic genre..., Munro's stories are also global, big-hearted and warm....One never knows quite where a Munro story wi...
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A K...
Patrick RothfussDeep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of ...
A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is ...
Happy for No Reason: The Seven Steps ...
Marci ShimoffEveryone wants to be happy. Yet, so many people are unhappy today: one in five women in America is on anti-depressants! What are they doing wrong? Clearly, a new approach to being happy is needed. Happy for No Reason presents three s...
Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the Saecular world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and...
They all loved her. That was their mistake. Two husbands, her college fiance, an influential boss every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. And the list is growing. The more investigator Rick Carson delves into...
Busy Body: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (...
M. C. BeatonCranky, yet lovable Agatha Raisin has never been one for holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its decadent Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing "Silent ...
When she was a high school student Shelley Browning shared one spectacular kiss with Grant Chapman, her young, charismatic, and oh-so-handsome teacher. Years have passed, but that kiss has remained one of Shelley’s favorite memo...
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
Susannah CahalanOne day, Susannah Cahalan woke up in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. Her medical records—from a month-long hospital stay of which she had no memory—showed psychosis, violence...
Elly finds her new life in Cadence City taking a strange--and dangerous--turn when her best friend's disappearance immerses her in a realm of myths and legends where only her ex-fianc Cooper Boone can help solve the mystery. Simultane...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter returns with the newest full-throttle adventure in the FBI series featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has ret...
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adve...
Vicki CrokeHere is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centu...
New York City: A thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neur...
A stranger named Marsuvees Black appears and announces he has come to bring hope and grace to the mountain town, Paradise, offering dazzling love, faith, and fun to residents, but as dark clouds and sandstorms shut Paradise off from t...
The Four-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, ...
Timothy FerrissTim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-...
When Guy Brouard, one of the wealthiest residents of the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, is murdered, there are many suspects. Could his killer be one of the underprivileged children he mentored, one of his several former w...
The Self-hypnosis Diet: Use the Power...
Steven GurgevichDelivers an innovative approach to achieve long-term success in shifting one's appetite to healthy foods and reaching one's desired weight, demonstrating how to use medical hypnosis for reducing appetite, increasing one's metabolism, ...
Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Managemen...
Mikel J. HarrySIX SIGMA is the most powerful breakthrough management tool ever devised, promising increased market share, cost reductions and dramatic improvements in bottom-line profitability for companies of any size. The darling of Wall Stree...
When it was first erected, the House of Seven Gables typified the mechanical Colonel Pyncheon; but it developed through the years until, by Hepzibah's time, it has become humanized and almost organic. The history of the house is thus...
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blin...
Michael HingsonA blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror.It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael's bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense the dista...
Before Luce and Daniel met at Sword & Cross and fought immortals at Shoreline, they lived many lives. . . .From the Hardcover edition.
Working as a salesgirl at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus, Mirabelle, a beautiful aspiring artist, embarks on a love affair with Ray Porter, a wealthy, lonely businessman she meets at the store, and together they struggle to understan...
The start of a major career! A gripping, highly commercial espionage thriller written with the delicious insider detail and up-to-the-minute insight, only known to a veteran CIA spook.In today's Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vla...
Stop Clutter from Stealing Your Life
Mike NelsonAccording to Mike Nelson, a recovering clutterer who knows first-hand what clutter can do and how it can be controlled, clutter is not just a minor annoyance or an organizational challenge. It can destroy self-esteem and relationships...
For years the Empress of Namorn has pressed her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit her vast lands within the Empire's borders, and at long last she agrees in what turns out to be quite the interesting visitation. Read by...
Gentle Reader, It could have been a scene from one of my novels. As a rule, respectable ladies do not accept calls from Mysterious Gentlemen on business of the most grave importance - but I confess that I was possessed of a lively cur...
Vulcan's Heart (Star Trek: The Origin...
Josepha ShermanAmbassador Spock secretly journeys to the planet Romulus at the request of a Romulan commander to help her prevent a catastrophe that could ignite the entire quadrant and becomes enmeshed in the treacherous intrigues of the Romulan em...
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role...
Nassim Nicholas TalebThis book is about luck -- or more precisely how we perceive and deal with luck in business and life. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill -- the world of trading -- Fooled by Ran...
A new portrait of the Oscar award-winning actress offers particular coverage of her struggles with drugs and alcohol in the 1960s and 1970s, her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist, and her present-day successes as a businesswoman....
Dave Barry's History of the Millenniu...
Dave BarryThucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough-to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has w...