Tom Stoppard: Faber Critical Guide by Jim Hunter is the essential introduction, analysis and exploration of Tom Stoppard's enormously influential body of plays.Are you fascinated by Stoppard's plays but want an informed view into their complexities?Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation?Do you teach Stoppard and need a reliable guide?The Faber Critical Guide to Tom Stoppard's major work g...

The Essential Guide to the Jimmy Buffett experience, everything you need to know about being a parrothead and more.

He crossed paths with, and connected to other human beings in ways not imagined possible: the driver expecting angels, non-teaching teachers, prostitutes, beach combers, grave diggers, jet pilots, college professor dropouts, Callie’s letter never delivered, the Hells Angel Old Lady, the jade picker, the pink-clogged British Professor of literature striding a remote Mexican beach, the stitch-giving Carmel Bar cocktail waitress, the death defying Mexican bus drivers, a single testicle artist...

From Prison Guard to School teacher, Psych Tech to Pilot to Mexican orphanage volunteer, and many more in between these fourteen short stories are a kaleidoscope view into Mid-Century American and Mexican views, ideals and ways of survival, of both men and women; of what they had to do and how they did it.

From landing on frozen lakes to negotiating San Francisco Streets during childbirth Jewel is not destined to be the teacher her mother wished for. Nor is Mike willing to help his best friend shoot a Fairbanks murderer. Cody and Laurie with unusual fortitude make Gold Mining and wilderness living work deep in the Alaska Range mountains near McKinley Park while adopting a Vietnamese boy of unknown age. Who is home schooled in the far north. Then gains a pilot’s license before a driver’s lice...

Danger. Evil. Death. Heroes can face it all, but they cannot do it alone.Throughout history, creatures both big and small have stood alongside heroes and helped them through trying times, whether on the battlefield or in their laps. In these brand-new stories, seventeen bestselling authors regale us with adventures of animal companions and how they often are the ones rescuing the rescuer.New stories by / in the world ofJim Butcher – from

Lie. Cheat. Bargain. Fight. Accept. Bribe. Conquer. Evade.   No matter what humanity tries, Death always wins.  Or does it?   Discover the answer in The Death of All Things, where twenty-two writers take their shot at the Grim Reaper with explorations of the mythical, fantastical, and futuristic bonds between life and death.  Learn the cost of mortality, the perils—and joys...

A human time bomb has three minutes. Cassidy Chord has even less.A terrified woman bursts into a Los Angeles ER with a fresh tattoo she swears she didn’t get. The numbers on her skin count down.00:03 — BOOM.The explosion kills the victim and a nurse. Hours later, a businessman in the LAX baggage claim detonates the same way.Former Blackhawk pilot, now forensic psychologist Dr. Cassidy Chord surviv...

Set in the days of saber-tooth tigers and wooly mammoths, Hawk, the chief spear-maker of his tribe is abandoned by his people and courageously meets the savage wilderness with new ideas and weapons.

In an epic season of sport, Jim Fergus and his trusty Lab, Sweetzer, trek the mountains, plains, prairies, forests, marshes, deltas, and deserts of America.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Great Gray Owls: Silent Hunters of the Northern Forest takes listeners deep into the quiet forests of the Northern Hemisphere to discover one of nature’s most remarkable birds. Follow author Rowan Wilder as he explores the great gray owl’s silent flight, extraordinary hearing, powerful hunting skills, family life, and the vital role it plays in healthy forest ecosystems. Filled with fascinating facts, engaging storytell...

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAn elite secret society of killers has controlled the world’s treasures for hundreds of years…until one member tears himself free to salvage his soul and protect his daughter’s life in this “astoundingly original, relentlessly paced, and purely authentic” (Jack Carr) debut.The single greatest work of art in the world is not in the Louvre or The Met, or in any private collection. In fact, its whereabouts ar...