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The Shards
A novel
2023
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NOW AN FX DRAMA SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city“A thrilling page turner from Ellis, who revisits the world that made him a literary star with a stylish scary ...
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- Vintage Contemporaries
2010
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.**"A seminal book.” —**The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsPatrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, an...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
2021
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A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization’s success and failure in our evolutionary biology.We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these t...
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- Vintage Contemporaries
2010
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho delivers a riveting, tour-de-force sequel to Less Than Zero, set on the seedy side of Los Angeles. • "A haunting vision of disillusionment, twenty-first-century style" (People).Returning to Los Angeles from New York, Clay, now a successful screenwriter, is casting his new movie. Soon he is running with his old circle of friends through L.A.’s seed...
Strong Curves
A Woman's Guide to Building a Better Butt and Body
2013
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This is not your run-of-the-mill fitness book. Developed by world-renowned gluteal expert Bret Contreras, Strong Curves offers an extensive fitness and nutrition guide for women seeking to improve their physique, function, strength, and mobility.Contreras spent the last eighteen years researching and field-testing the best methods for building better butts and shapelier bodies. In Strong Curves, he offers the programs that have proven effective time and time again with his clients, allowing y...
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- Vintage Contemporaries
2010
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. • The basis for the cult-classic film "Possesses an unnerving air of documentary reality." —The New York TimesThey live in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money in a place devoid of feeling or hope. When Clay...
The Case for America
An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation
2026
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#1 New York Times BestsellerBret Baier makes the case for America—an inspiring defense of our history, values, and national character by Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor“An eloquently written and splendidly reasoned homage to the founding principles of the Declaration of Independence.” —Douglas BrinkleyCan the Founders’ ideals still inspire and unite the nation 250th years after the Dec...
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- Vintage Contemporaries
2010
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From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent liberal-arts college in New England with no plans for the future—or even the present—who become entangled in a romantic triangle. • “An extraordinary writer.” —LA WeeklyBret Easton Ellis trains his incisive gaze on the kids at self-consciously bohemian Camden College a...
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2024
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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Contents: Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard C...
Until I Say Good-Bye
My Year of Living with Joy
2014
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Moving and inspirational reflections on life from one woman, diagnosed with ALS, making the most of her final days with family and friends.In June 2011, award–winning journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a disease that systematically destroys nerves that power muscles. Forty-five years old and a mother of three, Susan walks with braces and is losing her ability to speak. ...
Stalking Claremont
Inside the hunt for a serial killer
2021
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One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-running homicide investigation** Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime 2021**In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she'd already gone.Sarah was never seen again...
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- Vintage Contemporaries
2010
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The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. • “Arguably the novel of the 1990’s…Should establish Ellis as the most ambitious and fearless writer of his generation…a must read.” —The Seattle TimesSet in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, ev...








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