When an attempt to kiss his best friend becomes a prom night disaster, Elliot Dove's confusion surrounding his sexuality is thrown into overdrive.Desperate for some clarity, Elliot turns to GlimpseTech, a company offering all over-sixteens a 44-second glimpse of what lies ahead. But Elliot's Glimpse only makes him more confused, showing him in an intimate moment with Sebastian Glass, the "one gay kid" in his year at school.Seb, meanwhile, hates Glimpses and...

Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.After his tutelage under a surrogate father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a kind of messiah. His exceptional abilities...

Centuries ago, the magic left our world...The magicians went with it, stepping into the Gates to Mystic Albion and leaving OldeWorld—Earth—forever. Since then, the two worlds have remained separate. Until now.When they found themselves trapped on Earth, Richard, Brains, and Helen befriended Janet and Steve, a brother and sister growing up in a poverty-stricken estate, and taught them the basics of magic before discovering that sinister forces were slowly mo...

Bangkok at night is glossy on the surface and razor-edged underneath. In A Killing Smile, Christopher G. Moore opens the Land of Smiles Trilogy with a noir portrait of obsession, desire, and the cost of belonging in a city that never forgets a debt.When an expat drifter falls for a magnetic young woman whose beauty hides a secret past, he's drawn into a world where favors are traded in whispers, bars turn into hunting grounds, and the past returns like a blade in t...

Examine the profound impact of the Crusades with acclaimed Church historian and bestselling author Christopher Bellitto.Few events have affected the course of civilization as profoundly as the Crusades, a centuries-long period of violent conflict and competition between Islam and Christianity. The Crusades brought destruction and violence to the third monotheistic faith of Judaism as well. Resurfacing frequently in present-day political conversations about clashes ...

**“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —OutsideA hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places**The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before.Jo...

An engaging and impassioned look at Turkey's identity crisis'A brilliant literary thriller, an incursion into forbidden territory that is all the more gripping for being true' The Times'Sifting through propaganda, partisan accounts and evasive oral histories, de Bellaigue delivers a comprehensive primer in Turkish political history' Guardian_______________________________What...

An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood.In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the stru...

For fans of The Lost City of Z, The River of Doubt, and Lost in Shangri-La—a real-life Indiana Jones story, set in the mysterious jungles of Honduras."I began to daydream about the jungle...."On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him.Deep inside “the little Amazon,” the jungles of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast—one of the largest, ...

Bullets are flying in Bangkok.When journalist George Snow's BBC broadcast captures the crack of M-16 fire over Sanam Luang, expatriate writer Robert Tuttle is upcountry, listening in horror. As Bangkok erupts in violence, Tuttle races back to a city on fire — where soldiers turn their guns on civilians, and the air hums with ghosts from every side of Thailand's political divide.In A Haunting Smile, Christopher G. Moore paints an unforgettable portrait of a city—and...

In The Land of Smiles Trilogy, Christopher G. Moore peels back Thailand's serene mask to reveal the human and supernatural forces beneath. In A Bewitching Smile, former schoolteacher Richard Breach leaves Bangkok for the ancient Lanna kingdom, drawn into a world where shamans, gamblers, and foreign dreamers cross dangerous moral boundaries. Searching for ritual knives and a dying friend's truth, Breach becomes entangled with a woman whose beauty conceals a perilous secret...

Al Capone dove for the floor when he saw the flash of the camera, while his startled body guards drew their guns. The actress Miriam Hopkins ran screaming from the camera while Lyndon Johnson ran towards it. General Jimmy Doolittle called him a Son of a Bitch, while the Pope called him his friend. Bob Hope asked if he would escort Hope's wife to church, and John Barrymore asked if he would hide him from his mistress. Cary Grant demanded a shoe shine, Eleanor Roosevelt demanded an apology, ...