**Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic**“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implication...

The YA love letter to hip-hop—streaming on Paramount+ September 23, 2022! Starring Sanaa Lathan (in her directorial debut), Jamila C. Gray, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Lil Yachty, Method Man, Mike Epps, GaTa (Davionte Ganter), Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Titus Makin Jr., and Michael Anthony Cooper Jr.#1 New York Times bestseller · Seven starred reviews · Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor BookThis digital edition contains a letter from the author, deleted scenes, a picture of the auth...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years**“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—**The New York Times**“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—**Chicago Tribune“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner

I have a special power: the ability to calm a berserker, but I’ve been warned never to use it. My mother said: “If you see a berserker in a rage… not your monkeys, not your circus. Get the hell away. They’re too dangerous, and you’ll lose your freedom.”But the thing is… we’re flying 30,000 feet in the air in a speeding aluminum cage, and there’s a berserker raging out in the aisle beside me. Security won’t be able to hold him. They won’t be strong enough. They have no idea what the...

"THE INSURMOUNTABLE EDGE (Book One) is an on-point action thriller with a wisecracking antihero that will win over fans of Tom Clancy, Jeffrey Deaver and Robert Ludlum." - Rob Errera, IndieReader.comOverview of Three Book StoryTwo children savagely stoned to death in the California desert. Top employees of a U.S. defense contractor dying at an alarming rate. A cryptic message sent by a strange, secretive source warns the contractor's produc...

What if reading poetry could change you—not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act—not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility o...

A fully revised and expanded edition of the runaway bestseller, Surrounded by Idiots—now with more:Text • Charts • Examples • Snark!Master the four basic behavior types and change the way you communicate!Do you ever think you’re the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy?You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful en...

A New York Times #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award“It seems safe to say that Capital in the Twenty-First Ce...

**The bestselling citizen’s guide to economics“Thomas Sowell is the nation’s greatest living economist.” —*****American Spectator   ***Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he s...

"An epic thriller about a secret Nazi submarine and its mission . . . a tasty combination of Ken Follett and Clive Cussler" from the award-winning author ( The Novel Pursuit).Cruising from the sub pens of Trondheim under the cover of darkness—undetected by the sonar scans of Allied enemies—Kapitaenleutnant Erich Heinz Bruckner leads the experimental submarine U-5001 in a last-ditch effort for Nazi victory. But their sinister 1945 voyage ends mysteriously: ...

In "The Cruise of the 'Cachalot'," Bullen provides a vivid and detailed account of his experiences as a young deckhand and later as a first mate on a whaling voyage. The ship's primary mission is to hunt and harvest sperm whales for their valuable oil, a lucrative industry during the 19th century.The narrative takes readers on a journey across the world's oceans, as the "Cachalot" embarks on a perilous and arduous voyage in pursuit of these elusive and valuable creatures. Bullen describes ...

"The Trumpet-Major" is primarily a historical romance novel set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, particularly during the threat of a French invasion of England. The novel follows the story of Anne Garland, a young woman caught in a love triangle between two brothers, John Loveday and Robert Loveday. John serves as a Trumpet-Major in the local militia, while Robert is a sailor in the Royal Navy. Anne's romantic entanglements and the impact of war on the community are central the...