**“Thrilling and romantic in equal measure—these hot nerds solving history crimes are an absolute delight.” —J**odi McAlister, author of An Academic AffairPerfect for fans of Jo Segura and Rachel Grant, You, Me, & the Conspiracy is an academic adventure romance that finds two history professors trying to unmask a deadly secret society.After a bruising book rejection, tenure-track history professor Jessica Wilson is scrambl...

**Classic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South“His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty.”—Dwight Garner, The New York TimesA Penguin Classic**In the eight stories collected in Captain Maximus, Barry Hannah explores the lives of everymen and eccentrics alik...

Guide and master angler Barry Reynolds has a “deep, driving passion” for pike on the fly that permeates this book. He calls it “the most explosive, most exciting fishing you can find in freshwater.” in every chapter, his intent is clear--to help the angler catch pike, more pike and bigger pike. He concentrates on doing just that, even under the most difficult conditions, when the pike’s mood, water conditions, and weather work against the angler. In his fourth book, Barry takes flyfishing ...

Barry Reynolds & John Berryman use a seasonal approach to teach you everything you need to know to catch northerns, tigers, and muskies on a fly.

Discover the secrets of flyfishing for carp. Learn the habits and habitats of these challenging fish, what flies they'll take, and how to put those flies in the right place at the right time to catch carp consistently. Barry Reynolds and John Berryman, authors of Pike on the Fly and Beyond Trout, have joined with Brad Befus to challenge you to take advantage of what is certainly the last, great, overlooked flyfishing resource in North America. Put aside your preconceptions, read Carp on th...

From the acclaimed author of Billion Dollar Molecule and The Antidote, a revisionist, passionate history of the pharmaceutical industry, detailing how the nascent industry ushered in an age of cures.For the past thirty-five years, the acclaimed author Barry Werth has been covering one of the most consequential and underappreciated stories of our time—the rise of pharmaceutical companies, along with the science of drug research and the people who m...

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years.Vicariously thrilling for armchair—and actual—alpinists. –Kirkus ReviewsBlanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to inThe Calling (Patagonia, 2017).In these years, he travels from A...

America was built upon the enduring tension between strong leadership and constitutional restraint. What happens when this balance is challenged?Drawing upon a lifetime of experience in combat aviation, national security strategy, crisis leadership, education reform, and public service, John Barry's Power & Peril takes readers on a sweeping journey through the recurring struggles that have shaped both the American presidency and the nation itself. From the...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...

A practical roadmap for climbing the four ladders that create real, scalable wealth.Most people work hard yet never build meaningful wealth — not because they lack discipline, but because no one ever taught them the map.In THE LADDERS OF WEALTH, creator-economy pioneer Nathan Barry reveals the four ladders that determine your earning potential, from your first hourly job to scalable entrepreneurial income. With clarity and humility, Barry shows rea...

A sweeping American epic of rivers, oil, and the rule of law—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rising Tide and The Great InfluenzaIn Water and Oil, John Barry traces three great rivers and the struggle to control them: the Missouri, bearing the soil of the Great Plains; the Ohio, moving coal and steel; and the Mississippi, carrying a continent in its currents and building land across seven states, including Louisia...