Simon & Schuster / Juvenile & Young Adult

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical Scholarship

A collection of the Gothic master's classic works in prose and verse.

This Enriched Classic Edition Includes:

• A concise introduction that gives the...

Your Disgusting Head: The Darkest, Most Offensive and Moist Secrets of Your Ears, Mouth and Nose

by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey

In Your Disgusting Head, Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey reveal—through newly discovered discoveries—all the ways in which your head disappoints you.

For many years the scientific and educational community...

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

by Bruce Eric Kaplan

One Sunday afternoon, an ordinary couple named Edmund and Rosemary decide to go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Within moments, they are plunged into a wonderful, nerve-racking, hilarious, unique...

Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy

by David Roberts

The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles.

Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder...

Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

by Harriet Rubin

Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths...

Chronicles Volume 1

by Bob Dylan

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume...

Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her

by Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

In the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes -- the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons.

By the beginning of 1945, American pilots...

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out that Stopped It

by Stephen Hunter & John Jr. Bainbridge

American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican...

At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

by Taylor Branch

At Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling...

Confessions of a Street Addict

by James J. Cramer

In the most candid look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, James J. Cramer, cofounder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years one of Wall Street's premier money managers, takes readers...