A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present.Now a Los Angeles Times Bestseller!The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside to follow her older sister into open skies and the borderless adventures of stewardessing for Grand Pacific Airlines.In Sela d...

In this captivating novel, an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, forcing four vacationing Americans to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona.Whitney and Will are a perfect couple by all appearances, their relationship rock-solid, and their engagement soon to be announced. Before their impending nuptials, however, Whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment: why not give each other three romantic "free pa...

Ten years after the death of Paragon: The World's Greatest Superhero, heroism has withered in the city.A hidden threat keeps superhumans in hiding until a teenage boy dons the red, white, and blue of Paragon once more and sets off a chain reaction that exposes the truth behind the hero's death and what preys on new superhumans in the shadows.Join Dasani Watson as he brings hope back to the city. Meet James, afraid of his own dark power, and Amy, a girl with devastating powe...

In this captivating novel, an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, forcing four vacationing Americans to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona.Whitney and Will are a perfect couple by all appearances, their relationship rock-solid, and their engagement soon to be announced. Before their impending nuptials, however, Whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment: why not give each other three romantic "free pa...

A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present.Now a Los Angeles Times Bestseller!The year is 1972, and the beaches of Los Angeles are the center of the world. Dropping into the embers of the drug and surf scene is Suzy Whitman, who has tossed her newly minted Vassar degree aside to follow her older sister into open skies and the borderless adventures of stewardessing for Grand Pacific Airlines.In Sela d...

In The History of Rome: Rise and Fall of the Empire, John Bagnell Bury surveys Rome from republican ascent to late antique transformation. Drawing on Livy, Tacitus, Ammianus, inscriptions, papyri, and coinage, he reconstructs institutions, economy, army, and civic culture. The prose is lucid and analytic, wary of moralized "decline," and attentive to structures and causality. Situated within a Rankean, source-critical tradition yet alive to religious and intellectual change, the book marri...

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains gathers Isabella Bird's 1873 letters from the Colorado Territory into an epistolary travelogue of striking immediacy. Crossing high-country ranches, mining camps, and the open valley of Estes Park, she records harsh weather, rough hospitality, and fledgling frontier economies; her ascent of Longs Peak with the enigmatic Mountain Jim is a classic set piece. The prose is supple and exact, blending natural history with social observation, and stands within...

The History of Ancient Greece follows the arc from the Bronze Age to Alexander, charting the rise of the polis, overseas colonization, the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, and Macedonian hegemony, with incisive chapters on law, religion, drama, and philosophy. Bury's measured, unfussy prose marries narrative to analysis, grounding claims in inscriptions, coins, and the testimony of Herodotus and Thucydides. In dialogue with Grote yet distinct in its constitutional focus and strict chronolog...

Treatise on Tolerance (1763) is Voltaire's urgent brief against religious fanaticism and judicial cruelty, framed by the Calas affair. Combining forensic analysis with humane rhetoric, he dissects testimony, surveys comparative religions, and marshals history—from St. Bartholomew's Day to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes—to urge civil concord. The prose is lucid and ironic, a model of Enlightenment polemic that weds reason to sentiment and appeals to natural law and common interest. V...

John Bagnell Bury's The Rise and Decline of the Roman Empire presents a sweeping, source-driven narrative from republican ascent to the transformations of Late Antiquity. With lucid prose and philological rigor, Bury balances political chronicle with analyses of fiscal policy, military reform, law, and religious change, comparing East and West. In dialogue with Gibbon and Mommsen, he downplays melodrama, stressing continuities, regional variations, and the contingent play of borders, demog...

Autobiography of a Yogi traces Yogananda's path from a spiritually ardent youth in India to a world teacher of Kriya Yoga, weaving his meeting with Sri Yukteswar, portraits of saints such as Lahiri Mahasaya and Anandamayi Ma, and visionary episodes into a lucid, devotional narrative. Its prose, alternately anecdotal and analytical, balances humor with metaphysical exposition and seeks to reconcile yogic discipline with modern rationality. Published in 1946, it stands in a transnational mod...

First published in 1893, John Bagnell Bury's survey of the Principate, from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, blends panoramic narrative with diagnostic analysis. Chronology is punctuated by thematic chapters on institutions, provincial governance, army and finance, frontier policy, and religious change. Reading Tacitus, Suetonius, and Dio alongside inscriptions and coinage, Bury favors verifiable evidence over rhetoric; the prose is limpid and restrained, a late‑Victorian classic that tempers ...