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The first major historical work on Jim Crow since C. Vann Woodward's 1955 classic, this acclaimed book charts the shameful years from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights movement. The author of seven nonfiction books, Packard brings a historian's viewpoint to a phenomenon that surpasses credulity.

The first cultural examination of the "emo" musical movement in punk rock.

From "Essence" and "Blackboard" bestselling author Ray comes a novel about a man's struggle to come to grips with his violent past in order to find love in the present.

Epic in scope and confessional in tone, "At the Jim Bridger" enfolds the reader in a world of love and mystery, and makes us feel better than just about anything written on the page.

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, "The Year's Best Science Fiction" (Winner of the 2002 Locus Award for Best Anthology) continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year's best SF writing.

By the acclaimed author of "The Coming Storm, " this is the critically celebrated story tracing a disintegrating nuclear family across two decades of American life--from the early '60s to the '80s.

From a bestselling author comes a rousing U.S. Marine Corps novel set in China at the onset of U.S. involvement in World War II.

From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as governed by the blind, casual workings of a machine controlled by no one and for which no one is responsible" ("The New York Times"). When Andreas Pum returns from World War I, he has lost a leg but gained a medal. But unlike his fellow sufferers, Pum maintains his unswerving faith in God, Govern...

Taffel, a family therapist and author of "Parenting by Heart", and Blau, the author of "Families Apart", identify ten "core builders"--including mood mastery, respect, expressiveness, passion, peer smarts, focus, body comfort, caution, team intelligence, and gratitude--that will reinforce a child's inner self.

Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of singular spirits--of men and women for whom life is an adventure no Organization can quell, and whose souls remain their own.

The Real Wild West" tells the story of 101 Ranch, which created one of the most exciting, influential traveling rodeo shows ever to tour the country. Featuring countless cowboys and cowgirls, including such Western legends as Buffalo Bill, Geronimo and Bill Picket, it was only a matter of time before the show caught the glittering eye of Hollywood. Three 16-page inserts, one in color.

The authorized story of an American band who shaped the history of music for generations. Today's new music-makers are looking back at the bands that broke the ground, and the Ramones are it: the original high priests of punk, the stars of rock 'n roll high school, the royal avatars of rock, raunch, and rebellion. 60 photographs and illustrations.

Previously a self-published bestseller, "The Root of All Evil" is a sexy, dramatic novel about 34-year-old Klarke Taylor who has two children, a pile of bills, and creditors who won't leave her alone. And she's had just about enough. So Klarke and her confidants, Breezy and Jeva, resort to devising a shady plan to snag her a man who will make all her monetary dreams come true.

Penn has written a strange, sometimes still, sometimes thunderous novel that is unlike anything I've ever read...Reading Penn's novel was joyfully exhausting, which is how we should feel when we've been in the presence of such seriously good writing."- Kaye Gibbons, author of "Ellen Foster" and "Divining Women

On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer--international bestselling author, now known as Prisoner FF 8282--was sentenced to four years in prison and spent the first twenty-two days in HMP Belmarsh, a high-security prison that houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. During those three weeks, Archer contemplates suicide, he's moved to the lifer's wing because it's the only place with enough security to protect him, his cellmate sells a story to...

Bruce Stockler captures the chaos, joy and challenges of becoming the father of triplets in this hilarious, fast-paced, and refreshingly honest memoir. From the moment Stockler and his wife, Roni, learn they have hit the fertility jackpot, their lives are turned upside down. The day the babies are born—, in an operating room bustling with 30 doctors, nurses and technicians—, is the first jolt in a physical and emotional roller-coast...

When an apartment-sitting gig gives plain-Jane Margaret the chance to see how the glamorous other half lives, her double living begins to catch up with her, and she might soon be homeless, manless, and friendless all in one swoop.

Analyzing the special chemistry of life in Number 10 Downing Street, Peter Hennessy scrutinizes what the Prime Minister actually does and the way that Cabinet government is run. He draws on unprecedented access to many of the leading politicians and also recently declassified, electrifying archival material. He illuminates Prime Ministerial attitudes towards, and authority over, such topics as nuclear weapons policy, the planning and waging of...

Describing nine of the forty-five artists with whom she has worked, Karen Zelan, a former associate of Bruno Bettelheim and co-author of his book on reading, documents how psychotherapy helps autistic youth overcome their problems in socializing, communicating, playing, feeling, thinking, and in fostering personal relationships with people. Her stories resonate with what the parents and teachers of autistic children have felt, thought, and tri...

A vampire civil war has been averted, but now Damali Richards must stop bloodthirsty were-demons from putting a nefarious plan in motion, pitting The Covenant, The Guardians, and The Vampire Council against each other.