Against the brutal backdrop of Liberia's first civil war, a discarded boy learns love and belonging from a series of individuals who shape his life.From navigating the often-corrupt Liberian political and educational system to extracting himself from his oppressor's polygamist network at the tender age of twelve, Augustine's journey into adulthood was far from typical. When the country's first civil uprising forced young men to choose—kill or be killed—a series of strangers showed ...

INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • A rollicking history of England’s kings and queens from Arthur to Elizabeth I, a tale of power, glory, and excessive beheadings by award-winning British actor and comedian David Mitchell“Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell [is] a funny man and a skilled historian.”―The TimesThink you know the kings and queens of England? Think again.In Unruly, ...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fictionFeaturing a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Sh...

A comparative study of a literary friendshipC. S. Lewis and Austin Farrer were friends and fellow academics for more than 20 years, sharing both their Anglican faith and similar concerns about their modern world. Lewis, as Christian apologist and popular novelist, and Farrer, as philosophical theologian and college priest, sought to defend a metaphysically thick universe in contrast to the increasingly secular culture all about them, and this defense was o...

From a New York Times bestselling author, the harrowing, true account from the brave men on the ground who fought back during the Battle of Benghazi—and the basis of the movie starring Jon Krasinski and directed by Michael Bay.13 Hours presents, for the first time ever, the true account of the events of September 11, 2012, when terrorists attacked the US State Department Special Mission Compound and a nearby CIA station called the Annex in Benghaz...

“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who weren’t yet born, will find it revelatory.” — John Farmer, senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission and author of The Ground Truth“With his rigorous research and moral clarity, Mitchell Zuckoff has provided us with an invaluable service. He has deepened ...

Facing eviction, an artist begins an unlicensed massage practice out of his home. The money helps-but it's the people who change him: clients who speak honestly, making him an intimate partner in their healing journey, and who pull him into a new way of understanding the body, intimacy, and love. When one of his clients dies, she leaves him a mysterious gift. More than a financial legacy, his inheritance sends him on an explicit, sex-filled, personal-growth-adventure that fills his heart, ...

Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery**.**When young Caldan’s parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery.Growing up plagued by questions about his past, Caldan vows to discover who his p...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from Mitchell Zuckoff, the author of New York Times bestseller Lost in Shangri-LaOn November 5, 1942, a US cargo plane slammed into the Greenland Ice Cap. Four days later, the B-17 assigned to the search-and-rescue mission became lost in a blinding storm and also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on board survived, and the US military launched ...

Following the 1957 season, two of baseball’s most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed the larger culture, as acts of betrayal committed by greedy owners Walter O’Malley of the Dodgers and Horace Stoneham of the Giants. The departure of these two teams, but especially the Dodgers...

The first Ciaphas Cain omnibusIn the 41st millennium Commissar Ciaphas Cain, hero of the Imperium, is an inspiration to his men at least that’s what the propaganda would have you believe…READ IT BECAUSEEnjoy tall tales of adventure and derring-do in Commissar Cain’s memoirs (annotated by a sarcastic inquisitor). T'au, necrons and Chaos cultists all fall before the self-proclaimed hero of the Imperium…DESCRIPTION

The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one brief chapters, this classic of ancient Chinese wisdom, Lao...