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Gluck presents her 11th collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.

Emma is a rising star at the marketing firm she works at as a "creative, " but would have trouble describing what exactly it is she does all day. She pours most of her actual creative energy into a popular blog that all of her friends agree is brilliant, but she has yet to make a cent on it. Clem is a massively talented screenwriter just back from New York, where she picked up a fancy graduate degree in film. But until she convinces an agent t...

Riders. A new fantasy adventure from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Veronica Rossi.For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has b...

In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage, and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. "The Argumentative Indian" is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian history and culture, and a tempered analysis of the highly charged disputes surrounding these subjects--the nature of Hindu traditions, Indian identity...

Marking the return of many characters from "Gardens of the Moon" and introducing a host of remarkable new players, this novel is both a momentous new chapter in Erikson's magnificent epic fantasy and a triumph of storytelling.

What do you do? Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. artist, actor, screenwriter...but now he's 35 years old and still living downtown, still in the restaurant business working night shifts and serving the people he always wanted to be. What does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus who had what the Lower East Side wanted: he was young, good-looking, people liked him. He was going places. He was going to live ...

The "New York Times" bestselling series from Brandon Sanderson. This boxed set contains: "Mistborn"The Well of Ascension"The Hero of Ages

The "New York Times"-bestselling author and surgeon reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist. Dr. Gawande explains how this simplest of technologies has helped doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches.

Includes a new introduction by the author"--Cover.

A collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice--from the sartorial to the practical to even a couple of sure-fire hangover cures--this book of rules and accompanying quotations is an instruction manual for becoming a good man.

What will you hear when you read this book to a preschool child? Lots of noise! Children will chant the rhythmic words. They'll make the sounds the animals make. And they'll pretend to be the zoo animals featured in the book-- look at the last page!

Published with a new afterword from the author--the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was createdThe Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts--including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects--are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisi...

This boxed set contains "Ender's Shadow, " "Shadow of the Hegemon, " "Shadow Puppets, " and "Shadow of the Giant." "Ender's Shadow" Welcome to Battle School. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive...

Once, Jason Bourne was notorious in the clandestine world of covert-ops as one of the CIA's most expert international killers for hire. Out of the ashes of his violent past he's emerged today as a Georgetown professor, living a quiet life, retired from danger--until he narrowly escapes the bullet of a faceless assassin. And when two of Bourne's closest associates are murdered, Bourne knows that his legacy has followed him--and set him up as th...

All is not well in the Letherii Empire. Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, spirals into madness, surrounded by sycophants and agents of his Machiavellian chancellor, in this brutal, harrowing novel of war, intrigue, and dark, uncontrollable magic.

A tour-de-force by rising indie comics star Yang, "American Born Chinese" tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters whose lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable.

The amazing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo.

Milo Weaver has nowhere to turn but back to the CIA in Steinhauer's brilliantfollow-up to the "New York Times"-bestselling espionage novel, "The Tourist.

From one of America's finest writers ("San Francisco Chronicle") comes this volume that brings together "Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, " and Eisenberg's most recent collection, "Twilight of the Superheroes.

Fifty-five years ago, Ray Bradbury, one of America's greatest writers, envisioned one of the world's most unforgettable dystopian futures. Thinking is dangerous, trust only the state, turn in your neighbors, and, most important, burn all your books. Fully depicting the brilliance and force of Bradbury's canonic and beloved masterwork, RAY BRADBURY'S FAHRENHEIT 451 is an exceptional, haunting work of graphic literature.