A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told aby the world's leading expert. The narrative...
This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly...
A bold new season begins for the Tenth Doctor and companion Gabby Gonzalez! Whether Facing down an evil corruption of sentient music on a gas giant, catching up an unseen trips with Gabby's...
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Is there "anything" that Martin Amis can't write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane...
A dazzling, ambitious, original, funny literary debut spanning duplicitous love, family secrets, political intrigue, a historical riddle and a cloud of spacedust over Venus - Everything is...
With a New Foreword In "So Damn Much Money", veteran "Washington Post" editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since...
Madison Daniels has worshipped her brother's best friend since they were kids. Everyone thinks she and Chase Gamble would make the perfect couple, but there are two major flaws in their logic....
Join famed hunter Rexxar, his animal companions, and Horde Ambassador Zekhan as they make the perilous journey across the lush and vivid reaches of Kalimdor to learn the secrets of the realm. Leave...
Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer returns to comics in this thrilling noir series, based on an original plot aby Mickey Spillane, written...
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become...
London, 1840: Wagner's latest opera plays to packed houses while disgruntled workers gather in crowded pubs to eat ice cream and plan the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the Pirate...
A beautiful hardback classic edition of King's first published novel, CARRIE, produced for the fiftieth Anniversary, with a new introduction aby Margaret Atwood. Carrie White is no ordinary...
When his people are mercilessly massacred, Elric, the albino former Emperor of the ancient island of Melnibone is cast out into the world. However, fate brings him into the possession of...
The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided aby textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared...
Morbius the Living Vampire seeks to end his curse of a thirst for blood, and to stop a demonic cult from unleashing hell on Earth. Seeking to cure his rare blood disorder, Dr. Michael Morbius...
Lansdale's classic Hap and Leonard characters return in this incredible, mad-dash, Edgar Award-winning mystery, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count.
The enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia, continues to take America aby storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and wickedly...
The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly - Big Damn Hero. It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork żeby Anselm Kiefer.'Knausgaard...
In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if...
This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my eyes.It was facts that helped him explain how the world works. But it was curiosity and...
A groundbreaking history of the last days of the French empire in AfricaAs the French public debates its present diversity and its colonial past, few remember that between 1946 and 1960 the...