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Now a major motion picture starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones–coming to Netflix on November 21!A New York Times Notable Book for 2011One of The Economist**'s 2011 Books of the Year**One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Tree of Smoke – the name given to a ‘psyop’ that may or may not be hypothetical and may or may not be officially sanctioned – is Denis Johnson’s most gripping, visionary and ambitious work.Set across south-east Asia and the United States, and spanning two decades, Tree of Smoke tells the story of Skip Sands, a CIA spy who may or may not be engaged in psychological operations against the Viet Cong. Sk...

'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael OndaatjeAn epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace.Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires...

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disa...

[Siren Allure: Erotic Consensual BDSM Romance, M/F with M/F/M and F/F elements, public exhibition, spanking, whipping, caning, shaving, piercing, sex toys, HEA] Desperate for Dominant Ben to show an interest in her, Kat is persuaded by a friend to attend a beginners submissive and BDSM training conference in the hope of finding out how to attract him. She is shocked to find he is one of the trainers. Meanwhile, Ben doesn't think she is submissive enough for him and conceives of increasingl...

A Nobel laureate's powerful clarion call to end sexual violence and harness the strength, resilience, and leadership of women globally.In The Power of Women, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege amplifies the voices of sexual violence survivors he has worked with for years. Through their stories, he shows how survivors can heal and thrive with proper care and support, even if psychological scars remain.Dr. Mukwege's own...

‘A dazzling and savage first novel’ New York TimesAngels tells the story of two born losers. Jamie has ditched her husband and is running away with her two baby girls. Bill is dreaming of making it big in a life of crime. They meet on a Greyhound bus and decide to team up.So begins a stunning, tragic odyssey through the dark underbelly of America – the bars, bus stations, mental wards and prisons that play...

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West.Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our mo...

Christians throughout history have believed that God reveals himself both through Scripture and nature. The metaphor of God’s Two Books is often used to represent these two divine revelations.The Book of God’s Words is the Bible. Scripture reveals inerrant spiritual truths. These include, the God of Christianity is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the creation is very good, and only humans are created in the Image of God (Gen. 1:1, 27, 31).The Book of God’s Works i...

The New York Times bestsellerOne of America’s most original and biting comic satirists, Denis Leary takes on all the poseurs, politicians, and pop culture icons who have sucked in public for far too long. Sparing no one, Leary zeroes in on the ridiculous wherever he finds it—his Irish Catholic upbringing, the folly of celebrity, the pressures of family life, and the great hypocrisy of politics—with the same bright, savage, and profane insight he brought to...

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are stories of transcendence and spiraling grief, of hallucinations and glories, of getting lost and found and lost...

The mind is a bird; eyes, its wings of thought.When wings forget the ecstasy of myriad horizons,And ears forget the glimpse of heart’s whispers,Life shalt drift in ripples of emptinessDripping from unchained skies of oblivion.‘Oblivion’ is the search for breaths sans forgetfulness,For skies beyond horizons,For whispers of careless unison, andFor the deafening echoes of silence.It is the quest for love in sundry shades of life:...