52 Pickup is a rip-roaring thriller from master of crime fiction Elmore Leonard, the New York Times bestselling author of Raylan, Get Shorty, Killshot, and other novels of suspense.Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell has had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately, s..
A New York Times Notable Book, Sue Hubbell's A Book of Bees is “a melodious mix of memoir, nature journal, and beekeeping manual” (Kirkus Reviews).Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees’ lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, w..
When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of t..
This book describes and illustrates all the rolling stock commonly used by any American railroad, including the 150 different types of locomotive. The renowned Peterson Identification System pinpoints the key field marks that distinguish one railroad car from another. The guide also lists the 840 di..
An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human-both the good and the evil within us.Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Euge..
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers-Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of Tropic of C..
The Diary of Virginia Woolf has been acclaimed as a masterpiece. Anne Olivier Bell edited the five-volume original, and she has now abridged the Diary in this splendidly readable single volume edition. “A fine opportunity to experience Woolf’s biting wit and scathing depiction of her contemporaries”..
A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland. Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises--perhaps more pointedly than..
This newly designed field guide features descriptions of 524 species of butterflies. One hundred color photographs as well as 348 color range maps accompany the species descriptions. The 541 exquisite color paintings clearly show even the most minute field marks. Introductory chapters include inform..
This field guide includes all the flora and fauna you're most likely to see in the forests of eastern North America. With 53 full-color plates and 80 color photos illustrating trees, birds, mammals, wildflowers, mushrooms, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies, moths, beetles, and other insects. Author:..
An easy-to-use, large print edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field GuidesFor decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and..
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides-their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time. Grouped by color and by plant characteristics, 1,293 species in 84 families are described and illustrated. ..
Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner: "Of all the Kennedy books . . . this is the best."-TimeArthur M. Schlesinger Jr. served as special assistant to President John F. Kennedy throughout his presidency-from the long and grueling campaign to Kennedy’s tragic and unexpected assassination by ..
HOW DOES MAGIC HAPPEN The Ogilvy advertising legend-“one of the leading minds in the world of branding” (NPR)-explores the art and science of conjuring irresistible products and ideas."Sutherland, the legendary Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, uses his decades of experience to dissect human spending behavio..
Here is a deftly written thriller that is also a "deep and moody" (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) journey through the dark side of Japan's consumer-crazed society. Ordinary people plunge into insurmountable personal debt and fall prey to dangerous webs of underground creditors-so dangerous, in fact, th..
With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.“Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”-The New YorkerIn 1984, ..
A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell’s timeless and timely allegorical novel.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”In 1945, George Orwell, called “the conscience of his generation,” created an enduring, devastating story of new tyranny replacing old, and pow..
Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and importa..
Set in Virginia, this novel evokes the irony of change in the rural South. Dorinda Oakley is a passionate, intelligent, and independent young woman struggling to define herself. Author: Glasgow, Ellen Publisher: Mariner Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 015610685X ISBN-13: 97801561..
Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who comp..
In this authoritative and controversial biography, Stevenson charts the ways in which Sylvia Plath created her own legend--one at odds with the posthumous myth that has grown up around her. It is "the most genuinely feminist account of Plath's life yet: one in which Plath herself is held to be respo..
Beer’s “important...fascinating” book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust. Author: Beers, David Publisher: Mariner Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0..
The comic adventures of Dunyazade, Perseus, and Bellerophon reveal the author's thoughts on the nature of a hero and relationships between men and women. Winner of the National Book Award. Reprint. Author: Barth, John Publisher: Mariner Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0618131701 ..
Two long essays: “The Idea of a Christian Society” on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and “Notes towards the Definition of Culture” on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world. Author: Eliot, T. S. Publis..
THE INSPIRATION FOR JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL ON FX“As gritty and hard-driving a thriller as you’ll find….The action never stops, the language sings and stings.” -Washington PostThe City Primeval in Elmore Leonard’s relentlessly gripping classic noir is Detroit, the author’s much-maligned hometown an..