In 1944, 15 year old Wiesel's village Sighet in Hungary was overtaken by Hitler's army. The jews in the village were deported to concentration camps, including young Wiesel and his family. NIGHT is...
Artemis' mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years...
Why The Free Market Works and Freaky Theories Don't
John R. Lott, Jr.
As the blockbuster bestseller Freakonomics demonstrated, economics can explain everything—from why people behave the way they do to how governments and businesses organize themselves. But are...
In this collection of works by mystical poet Kahlil Gibran, the human soul is presented as essentially noble and good. His best-selling poem collection, The Prophet, is a discourse on love, good and...
It was the middle of November. I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves, vampires, and that thing that most unmarried but...
The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life)
Cathie Black
BASIC BLACK is a guide to seizing opportunity in the workplace, illustrated by colorful, personal anecdotes from Cathleen Black's four decades in the media business. Cathie Black is the wise, funny...
Three decades after Khomeinist thugs raided the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Westerners are puzzled by Iran. As a nation, Iranians still like the United States. As a revolutionary regime, however, Iran...
New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods returns with a fast-paced thriller starring Ed Eagle, the take-no-prisoners attorney from Santa Fe Rules.
Discover the impact of the human footprint in The World Without Us. Take us off the Earth and what traces of us would linger? And which would disappear? Alan Weisman writes about which...