**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JENNIFER LAWRENCE"Faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing." —Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and Small RainA couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality**An unnamed American coup...

Combinatorics is a subject of increasing importance, owing to its links with computer science, statistics and algebra. This is a textbook aimed at second-year undergraduates to beginning graduates. It stresses common techniques (such as generating functions and recursive construction) which underlie the great variety of subject matter and also stresses the fact that a constructive or algorithmic proof is more valuable than an existence proof. The book is divided into two parts, the second ...

Discover the Gospel of Mark and encounter the Mercy of God! A clear-cut and effective way to meditate daily on Saint Mark's Gospel. Read the entire Gospel within one year! An entry for each day of the calendar year: - a short quotation from Saint Mark's Gospel - an original, down-to-earth reflection composed by one of the book's twenty-three gifted spiritual authors, including Anthony Esolen, Fr. Vincent Nagle, Fr. George Rutler, and Fr. Joseph Lienhard, S.J. - a thought-provoking final pr...

The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, n ow a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gu...

Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When a child's game goes violently awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great shadow—love, perhaps—descends...

For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent residents: the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, who has a lifetime lease on the penthouse in the hotel; Sophonsobia Quay, the kayaking matriarch of an Andorran dynasty; and the Ricky Dents, an Australian couple who share a first name, a gigantic dog,...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him–including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. He would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhe...

A down-to-earth, practical reflection on the nature of God' s love, eloquently written by Fr. Peter Cameron. Drawing heavily on Sacred Scripture and the transforming encounters with Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospels, Fr. Cameron seeks to make God's love as real, concrete, and accessible to his readers' lives as possible. He emphasizes how God constantly searches for us and takes the initiative in loving us—how he woos us into happiness with him. Made for Love, Loved by God will also add...

Discover the Gospel of Luke and encounter the Mercy of God! A clear-cut and effective way to meditate daily on Saint Luke’s Gospel. Read the entire Gospel within one year! An entry for each day of the calendar year: - a short quotation from Saint Luke’s Gospel - an original, down-to-earth reflection composed by one of the book’s twenty-five gifted spiritual authors, including Heather King, Anthony Esolen, Fr. Vincent Nagle, Fr. George Rutler, and Fr. Joseph Lienhard, S.J. - a thought-provo...

Features forty-two blessings divided into three sections: 22 blessings for living the graces of the liturgical seasons, including: - Blessing to Prepare for Pentecost - Blessings for the Vigil of All Saints Day - Lenten Blessing to Help Carry Our Cross 12 blessings for spiritual growth, including: - A Pauline Blessing for Continued Conversion - Blessing for Mary's Maternal Mediation 9 blessings for special needs, including: - Blessing for Those Who Are Sick - Blessing in the Face of Fear W...

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Emergency Medicine**The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly upda...

A spiritual reading of Paul's letters A entry for each day of the calendar year: - a short quotation from one of Paul's letters - an original reflection by one of the book's thirty-two gifted spiritual authors - a thought provoking prayer Praying with Saint Paul will guide you through the spiritual treasury of Saint Paul's corpus - from the Letter to the Romans to the Letter to Philemon