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Dorian Gray becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. But each time Dorian commits a sin his portrait ages, showing him what is happening to his soul.

An explosive novel of the drug trade, The Power of the Dog, takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.

To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace, imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor.

In this novel of mystery, intrigue, and virtual reality, Rima Lanisell gets involved with a famous mystery writer who finds her plotlines being taken over by her Internet fans, and who may have had a relationship with Rimas father.

Comfort Food is about the power of food to bring people together and the joys of savoring every bite of life.

In this inspiring follow-up to her best-selling memoir about her successful efforts to save her son from autism, Jenny McCarthy shares a variety of recovery stories from other parents of autistic children across the country.

Millions of Americans are being buried alive with outrageous fees, interest rates and penalties. Meanwhile, the credit card companies are making billions of dollars in profits. The CEO of one of the largest credit card companies in America has stated that their only "problem is to squeeze out enough revenue and get customers to sit still for the squeeze." By learning the traps of the consumer lending industry, listeners will know how to avoid ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offers both brilliant humor and tragedy as Huck and Jim explore moral dilemmas of slavery and freedom. Huck, the narrator, is shrewd, ingenious, and literal--he reports on everything he sees, which allows the listener to experience the hypocrisy of "sivilization." Patrick Fraley's superb narration is rich in the adventurous sprit of the Mississippi River. It captures the world and people that Mark Twain knew ...

A prize-winning historian fundamentally revises the history of modern Europe and its central catastrophe: the thirteen million people killed by the totalitarian regimes of Hitler and Stalin in the lands between Berlin and Moscow.

The New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm comes this dramatic expos of factory farms and the dangerous public-health crisis created by some of the most powerful industries in America.

Hootenville may look like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface is a throbbing network of violence, blackmail, and murder, linking strange bedfellows in a game known as Industrial Espionage.

Born with an extra ring finger on one hand and a gifted proclivity for math, John Dolan Vincent suffered childhood ridicule and a difficult home life. Now his adult life is spiraling downward as he struggles with untreatable migraines, drugs, and the criminal forgery activities he engages in to survive.

Still recovering from a gunshot wound, Montalbano must overcome self-imposed seclusion and waxing self-doubt to penetrate a web of hatred and secrets in pursuit of the strangest culprit hes ever hunted.

This medically proven program helps men and women rejuvenate their sexual appetite and take their sex lives to new and exciting heights.

The newly liberated humans of the Fleet of Worlds and Sigmund Ausfaller must contend not only with the sly Puppeteers but also the threat of the Pak, a very smart and utterly ruthless species who are fleeing the exploding galactic core.

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In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption. Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to s...

In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his Colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is fo...

Born with an extra ring finger on one hand and a gifted proclivity for math, John Dolan Vincent suffered childhood ridicule and a difficult home life. Now his adult life is spiraling downward as he struggles with untreatable migraines, drugs, and the criminal forgery activities he engages in to survive.

Ten years in the works, Columbine is an award winning masterpiece of reportage, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the massacre from day one and reconstructed the psychological journey of two teenage boys who became killers.