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The vivid and emotional story of one soldier s heroic struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder.

An in-depth look at the inspiration behind the greatest crime films ever made.

Published to coincide with the release of the new James Bond film "Quantum of Solace, " this trilogy of thrillers sees Bond confronting one of the most dangerous adversaries he's ever encountered--The Union, a mysterious and sinister organization of criminals-for-hire.

Newsweek" journalist Hewitt, who lives in China and has witnessed first hand the impact and speed of the nation's vast upheavals, has written a timely and illuminating book that speaks with the voices of everyday people confronting an ever-changing reality.

The Silver Bear" offers an intense psychological portrait of a hitman--the anti-Jason Bourne--as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA.

First published in 1998, Four Stories is the first short story collection written by Marcus McGee, a favorite for readers who appreciate the author's twisted humor. The stories are loosely autobiographical and center on issues involving family life. Yet they illustrate how political family life can become at times. The Felinicide, for example, is an examination of the death penalty, wherein the protagonist is a cat. The three remaining stories...

The American debut of internationally bestselling Swedish writer Lackberg's haunting first novel. A more than welcome addition to the growing ranks of Scandinavian fiction . . . Fjallbacka and its crimes and people will soon be as popular here as they are in her native Sweden.--Peter Robinson, author of "All the Colors of Darkness.

In this epic account of World War I in the Middle East, Ford presents the complete story of the invasion of the Garden of Eden that ended with a momentous victory on the site of the biblical Armageddon and the creation of Iran and Iraq.

From a gladiator to a renegadeconquistador to England's greatestwarrior-king six men who changedthe course of history.

A literary tour-de-force ranging from the American frontier to Edwardian England and the decadent carousing of the Bright Young People of London's jazz age.

The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Rosemary's Baby: a thrilling, cautionary tale of the troubling forces that war within each of us.

A veteran of the war in Iraq, where he suffered extreme injury, and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McClain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and his future in the city of Chicago. He's got a friend there he can count on. What he doesn't count on is Lisa DePietro. She's pretty, openhearted, with dark eyes you could drown in, and she's being stalked. In a bar, on the El, outside her house, by a big guy in a brown lea...

A superbly cranky American daughter and her impossible, mysterious Iranian father are the fabulous characters populating this wonderful novel. . . . A cross-cultural family drama that cracks through old notions.--Joan Silber, author of "The Size of the World.

One of the bloodiest battles in world history a military tragedy that would come to define a generation.

The definitive and dramatic history of World War I s forgotten front.

The ideal introduction history of western philosophy: An illuminating discourse on the major thinkers, from Plato to Descartes to Nietzsche.

They are the beautiful and popular four, they call themselves, The Hive. If you are not one of them or at least approved by them you are a Nothing. When you are nothing your school days are filled with abuse and humiliation. Brooke Stevens leads a foursome of middle grade girls in a world of bullying and torture making life miserable for the weaker students. But when Brooke goes too far her secret is revealed to all and her school days are cha...

An in-depth, narrative study of the cocaineindustry from the fields of Colombia tothe streets of New York as it hasnever been told before.

Three classic 007 novels by acclaimed author Benson, featuring literature's most celebrated secret agent, are collected in this single volume. Includes "The Facts of Death, Zero Minus Ten, " and" The Man with the Red Tattoo." Three classic 007 novels by acclaimed author Benson, featuring literature's most celebrated secret agent, are collected in this single volume. Includes "The Facts of Death, Zero Minus Ten, " and" The Man with the Red Tattoo.

A fresh, commanding, and thought-provoking narrative history of the competing Russianand American empires.