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When Alice Ozma was in fourth grade, she and her father decided to see if he could read aloud to her for a hundred consecutive nights.

The essential guide for describing the extraordinary--the must-have reference for anyone wishing to rise above tired superlatives.

The Patriot's History Reader examines the documents, speeches, and legal decisions that shaped our country into what it is today.

Sam Capra is living the life of his dreams. He's a brilliant young CIA agent, stationed in London. His wife, Lucy, is seven months pregnant with their first child.

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources.

When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives t

There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tamed crow, and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio.

This revised edition of Cantor's breakthrough history of the Middle Ages incorporates new research and a sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, and women's roles in society.

This second part of Christopher Milne's autobiography provides an account of a young man's search for identity, of a struggling (but later thriving) bookshop, and of Milne's own family life in a sm

This 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and America's efforts to find and assassinate

The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.

A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place.

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults.

Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess.

These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; an