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Up on Cloud Nine

by Anne Fine

Ian’s best friend, Stolly, is up on cloud nine. He’s in the hospital, unconscious, and hooked up to machines. The question Ian is trying to answer is: How did Stolly end up there?

In a way, Stolly’s always...

Soups and Broths: James Peterson's Kitchen Education: Recipes and Techniques from Cooking

by James Peterson

Celebrated chef, teacher, and cookbook author James Peterson presents more than forty soup and broth recipes from Cooking, his classic guide for home cooks. Within, cooks of all levels will find a wide variety...

Chicken and Other Poultry: James Peterson's Kitchen Education: Recipes and Techniques from Cooking

by James Peterson

Celebrated chef, teacher, and cookbook author James Peterson presents more than thirty recipes for chicken, turkey, duck, squab, and quail from Cooking, his classic guide for home cooks. Featuring delicious...

Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard

by Nigel Slater

Britain’s foremost food writer Nigel Slater returns to the garden in this sequel to Tender, his acclaimed and beloved volume on vegetables. With a focus on fruit, Ripe is equal parts cookbook, primer on...

Pericles

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

“This world to me is but a ceaseless storm

Whirring me from my friends.”

—Pericles

Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragicomedy...

Henry VI: Parts I, II, and III

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

Displaying the bold vision and growing skill of a young playwright, these are Shakespeare’s first three history plays, covering some sixty tumultuous years of English history. Their pageantry, violence, and...

King John & Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

“Mad world, mad kings, mad composition!”

—King John

In one volume, eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide fresh new editions of two classic histories: Henry VIII and...

Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

by Tracy Joanne Borman

Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of...

Remarried with Children: Ten Secrets for Successfully Blending and Extending Your Family

by Barbara Lebey

It's the most daunting task many parents will ever face: bringing two growing families together into one brand new marriage. But even though statistics show that most remarriages are at high risk--especially...

David Hockney: The Biography

by Christopher Simon Sykes

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful...

The Spoiler

by Annalena Mcafee

A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become...

I Am An Executioner: Love Stories

by Rajesh Parameswaran

An explosive, funny, wildly original fiction debut: nine stories about the power of love and the love of power, two urgent human desires that inevitably, and sometimes calamitously, intertwine.

In I Am an Executioner,...

Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World

by William Lee Miller

Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, consecutive presidents of the United States, were midwesterners alike in many ways—except that they also sharply differed.  Born within six years of each other (Truman...

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind

by Richard Fortey

From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle...

Nocturnal: A Novel

by Scott Sigler

Scott Sigler reinvented the alien-invasion story in his bestselling novels Infected and Contagious… rebooted the biotech thriller in Ancestor…now, in his most ambitious, sweeping novel to date, he works...

Easy Money: A Novel

by Jens Lapidus & Astri Von Arbin Ahlander

From one of Sweden’s most successful defense lawyers comes an unflinching look at Stockholm’s underworld, told from the perspective of the mob bosses, the patsies, and the thugs who help operate its twisted...

Mission to America

by Walter Kirn

Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission–a mission to save his people’s way of life. Mason was raised in a tiny, isolated Montanan sect, the church of the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles. But the Apostles...

Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind

by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

A unique fitness program from a highly respected spiritual leader that blends physical and spiritual practice for everyone - regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability - to great benefits for both body...

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Building Your Career

by Jennifer Merritt

Are you looking for a mere job—the kind where you do virtually the same thing day after day, year after year, and spend the hours counting down the minutes until the clock hits five p.m.? Or are you looking...

Noni Flowers: 40 Exquisite Knitted Flowers

by Nora Bellows

Designer Nora J. Bellows’s extraordinary Noni® bag and flower patterns have earned her acclaim and endeared her to a loyal following of knitters all over the world. Now, in her first book, she offers lifelike...