Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and William Hill Sports Book of the Year: Barbarian Days is a deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer looking for transcendence 'that recalls early James Salter' (Geoff Dyer, Observer)Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study, a passionate way of life.New Yorker writer William Finnegan first started surfing...

****Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**Included in President Obama’s 2016 Summer Reading List“Without a doubt, the finest surf book I’ve ever read . . . ” —The New York Times Magazine**Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way ...

The Mexican food favorite gets a night all its own with recipes from Chicken Taco Nachos to Baja-Style Beer-Battered Fish Tacos and Beans & Greens Tacos.Taco night! Music to the ears of busy parents and hungry kids. From a wide variety of fillings, toppings, salsas and side dishes, this book covers it all. It even shows you how to make your own tortillas. Beautifully designed with gorgeous photos, Taco Night includes meat, seafood, and vegetarian variations...

Pasta recipes to tempt family and friends, including baked dishes, veggie options, and even sides and salads.Pasta is the go-to dish for a quick weeknight meal or a sumptuous weekend feast. This book runs the gamut of recipes, showing you how to make enticing and nutritious homemade dinners for any day of the week. Not only goes the book offer a variety of sauces—from pesto to Bolognese to Alfredo—it provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations for making yo...

Tasty recipes for a year's worth of lean proteins, seasonal vegetables, whole grains, and good fats.Healthy Dish of the Day offers daily culinary inspiration for eating one healthy meal every day to keep you on the road to a healthy lifestyle. When you eat meals packed with superfoods, healthy fats, and sensible proteins, there's no need to count calories to be sure you're eating well.Organized by month, and featuring one recipe for each day of the c...

A revised collection of seasonal soups for each day of the year, featuring 100 new recipes and new full-color photography.Soup is often thought of as comfort dish for cold weather, Soup of the Day showcases how diverse soups can be. From light gazpachos to hearty chowders, cream of tomato to chicken noodle, vegetable-lentils to steak and potatoes, there's something to please every palate throughout the year—and plenty of full-meal soups for easy dinner solu...

Spectacular seasonal vegetable recipes for every day of the year that will leave you wondering why you don't eat more of them.Bursting with color, texture, and flavor, vegetables reflect the changing seasons better than any other type of food. Enjoy dishes like new potatoes with peas or grilled artichokes with lemon aioli in spring. Have some golden corn fritters or puffy corn soufflés, sautéed or grilled red and yellow sweet peppers, and tomatoes in summer. Savor w...

William’s Witch: the second installment of a funny, sexy new paranormal romance series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Day.What happens when a centuries-old vampire who's allergic to magic falls for a very modern witch? Mayhem, madness, and romance!William Pemberley woke up with a blazing hangover and realized that, yet again, he didn’t know where or when he was.The where was a fairly common occurrence and ha...

'A sexy, modern love story' Reese Witherspoon'I absolutely loved it' Jodi PicoultSeven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...When Eva Mercy, a single mother and bestselling erotica writer, and the enigmatic, award-winning novelist Shane Hall meet at a literary event in New York, sparks fly.What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Ev...

The highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s New York Times bestsellers One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses listeners once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror.After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned...

A pioneer town and the son of its namesake fight for survival amidst draught, dust storms, and deadly attacks from Apaches in this Western adventure.It began with a handful of bedraggled pioneer survivors. It took root because of the courage of one young man. In William W. Johnstone's new blockbuster Western series, a town called Fury rises up in the midst of a hostile Arizona Territory—and lives every day as if it were its last . . .Between newcomers and o...

Enslaved after the slaughter of billions by a violent race of aliens called the Saurons, Earth’s few remaining humans are forced into back breaking labor building mysterious temples for their new masters. The captors claim that these temples, once finished, will allow them to leave Earth in peace once again. They enlist Alexander Franklin, former governor of Washington, as the head of their puppet government to help manage their mission. Meanwhile, a group of escaped slaves form a resistan...