It's Christmas 2019 on Long Island, and something's gone very wrong: Christmas trees, the bright and merry creatures that everyone celebrates through song when the weather is frightful, are strangling people to death! It started with two ornery Brooklynites who were choked on the Long Island Expressway while driving their new tree home. Then it was an honor student at a prestigious school, then the heir to a famous culinary family...and that was just the start of their carnage. Join young ...

Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principl...

This book looks at both the past and the future of the debate over whether there are moral limits to scientific progress and what life will look like in the genetic age.

Trevor Kaymardt, known to a generation of fans as the "Blue Light Express," has fallen on hard times. After losing the ability to pitch following the sudden death of his wife, life after retirement has turned the four-time National League All-Star into an anonymous corporate drone. But at a company retreat, Trevor meets Angelica, a free-spirited David Bowie fanatic with a checkered past of her own. Will the power of love and the Starman give Trevor his mojo--and his fastball--back?

Will Chambers, an easygoing Brooklyn librarian who loves cartoons and punk rock music, isn't so happy-go-lucky after eight months out of work. If he doesn't find another job soon, he's going to be living in a box somewhere in the New York City subway system! His back pressed firmly to the wall, Will applies for a job in trendy Williamsburg promising "lots of fresh air and unbeatable benefits." Will's unforeseen new career is an adventurous one, as he is quickly confronted with a neighborho...

Leon R. Kass has been helping Americans better understand the human condition for over four decades-as a teacher, writer, scholar, public champion of the humanities, and defender of human dignity. From bioethics to civic education, from interpreting the Bible to weighing the moral implications of modern science, Kass has offered wisdom, guidance, and instruction. In this volume, fifteen of Kass's admirers, including students, colleagues, and friends, honor his work by reflecting on the bro...

The New York Times bestselling author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and Assholes Finish First delivers a new collection of thirty 100% true, 100% exclusive stories of comically perverse excess.Another installment in Tucker Max's series of stories about his drunken debauchery and ridiculous antics. What began as a simple sentence on an obscure website, “My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole,” and developed into two infamously genr...

NovaJust when I think my neighborhood is back to being quiet and quaint, he shows up. Tucker Hays may think he's the perfect man with his sexy smirk, plush beard, and sleek motorcycle, but mama didn't raise no fool. Maybe it's time to show him he picked the wrong woman to charm.TuckerIf anyone needs to let loose and have a good time, it's my new neighbor. I've never met a woman who needs to let her hair down more than Nova Jackson. ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.With a new bonus chapterIn Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pa...

When Jacob and Megan Brandeis plan to expose a secretive and evil corporation, the fallout threatens to destroy them in this thriller by the world's #1 bestselling author.Jacob and Megan Brandeis have gotten jobs with the mega-successful, ultra-secretive Store. Seems perfect. Seems safe. But their lives are about to become anything but perfect, anything but safe. Especially since Jacob and Megan have a dark secret of their own. They're writing a bo...

The “highly entertaining and thoroughly reprehensible” #1 New York Times bestseller—now with sixteen pages of photos and a new introduction (The New York Times).My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole. I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dick...

In his second book, Adam Carolla—author of New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks and chart-topping podcaster—reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker friends to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. He tackled ...