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David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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Betty Smith

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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Graham Greene

The Quiet American

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Michael Chabon

Telegraph Avenue

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise (Barnes & Noble Classics Edition)

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Lewis R. Lancaster

Introduction of Buddhism to Korea: New Cultural Patterns

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Peter Brown

Augustine of Hippo: A Biography

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Stephen Hawking

My Brief History

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He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. He was a man alone. Ayn Rand's classic tale of a dystopian future of the great "We"--a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence--that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

This centennial edition of Anthem, celebrating the controversial and enduring legacy of its author, features an introduction by Rand's literary executor, Leonard Piekoff, which includes excerpts from documents by Ayn Rand--letters, interviews, and journal notes in which she discusses Anthem. This volume also includes a complete reproduction of the original British edition with Ayn Rand's handwritten editorial changes and a Reader's Guide to her writings and philosophy. — Quick view Add to Cart

Ayn Rand

Anthem

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"I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. With this sentence Fyodor Dostoevsky began one of the most revolutionary novels ever written, a work that marks the frontier, not only between nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, but between two centuries visions of the self. For the unnamed narrator of Notes from Underground is a multiplicity of selves, each at war with the others--all at war with everything else.

Now Richard Pevear and Larissa Volohonsky, whose translations of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov have become the standard versions in English, give us a superb new edition of Dostoevsky's classic that conveys both the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original Russian. — Quick view Add to Cart

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground

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Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once cast him as the “type that loses the girl”), and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope….

With an introduction by Cynthia Ozick. — Quick view Add to Cart

Saul Bellow

Seize the Day

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Ellis Peters' introduction to the murderous medieval world of Brother Cadfael.

In the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise, and all too wordly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder.

The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows a carnal hand did the killing. But he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice...where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's own ruin. — Quick view Add to Cart

Ellis Peters

A Morbid Taste for Bones (Book 1)

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The Brangwen sisters are now teachers in Beldover, a small town dominated by the great colliery that seems to express the full dehumanizing ugliness of industrialization. Here Ursula falls in love with Birkin, in some way s a self-portrait of Lawrence, while Gudrun has a tragic and demonic affair with Gerald, son of the colliery owner.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Charles Ross — Quick view Add to Cart

D.H. Lawrence

Women in Love

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century Gothicism. While staying in the Swiss Alps in 1816 with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, Mary, then eighteen, began to concoct the story of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life by electricity. Written in a time of great personal tragedy, it is a subversive and morbid story warning against the dehumanization of art and the corrupting influence of science. Packed with allusions and literary references, it is also one of the best thrillers ever written. Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus was an instant bestseller on publication in 1818. The prototype of the science fiction novel, it has spawned countless imitations and adaptations but retains its original power.

This Modern Library edition includes a new Introduction by Wendy Steiner, the chair of the English department at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Scandal of Pleasure. — Quick view Add to Cart

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus (Modern Library Edition)

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From New Yorker staff writer David Grann, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Lost City of Z, a twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more members of the tribe began to die under mysterious circumstances.

In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes like Al Spencer, the “Phantom Terror,” roamed—many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll climbed to more than twenty-four, the FBI took up the case. It was one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations and the bureau badly bungled the case. In desperation, the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the bureau. The agents infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

In Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann revisits a shocking series of crimes in which dozens of people were murdered in cold blood. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, the book is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, as each step in the investigation reveals a series of sinister secrets and reversals. But more than that, it is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward American Indians that allowed the murderers to operate with impunity for so long. Killers of the Flower Moon is utterly compelling, but also emotionally devastating. — Quick view Add to Cart

David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

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Someone was trying to kill Biron Farril, just as someone had murdered his father. And behind that threat lay all the might of Tyrann--Tyrann, the ruthless, barbaric Empire that was ravaging and absorbing all of the Nebular Kingdoms.

He fled from Earth into space, seeking sanctuary. But all he found was betrayal and the need to flee again--into further betrayal.

Now Biron was being forced to become a betrayer. Somewhere there was a rebellion world, and he was sure he knew the location. But he was in the hands of Aratap, powerful Autarch of Tyrann, and he must either betray the woman he loved or the rebellion world that offered the only hope for the future! — Quick view Add to Cart

Isaac Asimov

The Stars, Like Dust: A Galactic Empire Novel

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The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Book Edition) — Quick view Add to Cart

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness (Ace Book Edition)

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A glossary of people, places, and things arranged for convenient reference.

Middle Earth. The fantastically complex world J.R.R. Tolkien created in his epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Who was Gerontius Took? Sancho Proudfoot? What was the Calendar of Imladris? When was the Sunless Year? The Third Age? Where was Mirkwood? Fangorn Forest?

All the people, places and events--from Adaldrida Brandybuck to Zirak-Zigil--in Tolkien's classic masterpiece are identified and described in detail. — Quick view Add to Cart

Robert Foster

A Guide to Middle Earth: A Complete and Definitive Concordance for "The Lord of the Rings"

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Leigh Brackett

The Nemesis From Terra

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‘Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.’ To this ‘one very simple principle’ the whole of Mill’s essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who organized the idea into a philosophy, and put it into the form in which it is generally known today.

In her introduction the editor discusses Mill's precocious, utilitarian education and his reverence for the 'unrivaled wisdom' of his wife, hinting intriguingly at his unconscious motives. She records, too, responses to Mill's books and comments on his fear of 'the tyranny of the majority.' Dr. Himmelfarb concludes that the same inconsistencies which underlies On Liberty continue to complicate the moral and political stance of liberals today. — Quick view Add to Cart

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty (Penguin Classics Edition)

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