Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn is an intriguing exploration of the suburban yard, uncovering the complexities of life in this common habitat. Over the course of a year, author Hannah Holmes unveils the intricate interactions between suburban wildlife, such as crows and raccoons, and the diverse plant species.

To some, the suburban lawn is a green oasis; to others, it's eco-purgatory. Holmes shares her fascinating and often hilarious discoveries, revealing how various animals, including bears and cougars, are drawn to suburban environments. She also delves into the botanical world, illustrating how plants communicate and compete for dominance.

With wit and insight, Holmes offers ways to cultivate healthier, more vibrant lawns. Her science and travel writing, featured in notable publications, enriches this delightful narrative, encouraging readers to rediscover the wonders of their own backyards.

She chose to die in her sister's place and yet she lived. Luthiel, just 15 years old, made a brave peace with the dreaded Vyrl of the Vale of Mists. Now she must face an army sent to destroy them.

With her companions -- the werewolf Othalas, the dragon Melkion, the sorcerer Mithorden, a Vyrl named Ecthellien, and the elf Vaelros who would love her -- Luthiel races back to the angry faelands to beg forgiveness for monsters. Who, if any, will survive the journey?

For the Vale is surrounded by the webs of Widdershae, and the only other path leads to the Red Moon -- where an ancient evil waits in the flames. Beyond the Vale, the home she left is not the same. Armies march for vengeance. Powers play their hands in a game of ages.

In the sky, something evil stirs. Rumors of a dark prophecy. Whispers of a "Blood Witch." And signs foretelling an ancient doom terrible enough to destroy worlds.

Vampires that, at will, can transform into wolves, panthers, insects, or fog invade the Slayer base of operations in northern Scotland, and not only walk away unscathed, but in possession of Buffy's scythe, the symbol of Slayer power worldwide. Buffy and the Slayer legion travel to Tokyo in order to learn more about their dangerous new foes, as Xander journeys to Transylvania to solicit the only person they've ever known to possess such power: Dracula.

The celebrated Buffy Season Eight continues with Drew Goddard (Cloverfield, Lost) writing Wolves at the Gate, with Joss Whedon continuing his role as executive producer, and Georges Jeanty as series artist.

Includes the stand-alone issue written by Buffy creator Joss Whedon, titled A Beautiful Sunset.

Collecting issue #11-15 of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series.

In his acclaimed Codex Alera novels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher has created a fascinating world of elemental magic. Now, as enemies become allies, and friends become bitter foes, a danger beyond reckoning looms for all...

After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim warriors, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists—the mysterious threat that drove the savage Canim to flee their homeland. Tavi proposes attempting an alliance with the Canim against their common foe, but his warnings go unheeded. For the Senate’s newly-appointed military commander has long desired to wipe out the Canim “scourge,” and their slave allies. Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome centuries-old animosities if an alliance is to be forged, and he must lead his legion in defiance of the law, against friend and foe—or none will have a chance of survival...

The Clans are in turmoil. ShadowClan has turned its back on StarClan and pledged to follow the dark predictions of Sol, the strange cat who foretold the solar eclipse. But not all the cats have lost faith in their warrior ancestors...

Jaypaw is convinced that StarClan still holds an important place in the warrior code, and his search for answers leads him far back into the past, farther back than even StarClan can remember. Lionblaze, tortured by violent dreams and bloody visions, wishes he had never been prophesied to be one of the three, but to turn his back on his littermates would be the ultimate betrayal. And Hollyleaf is terrified that once the Clans lose their faith, the warrior code will fall apart. She's willing to fight tooth and nail to preserve it—whatever the cost.

And when murder stalks into the heart of ThunderClan, the cats realize that the darkest shadows don't always lie outside the territory.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Captain's Fury and the Dresden Files novels, comes a captivating tale of adventure and intrigue.

Tavi of Calderon, now recognized as Princeps Gaius Octavian and heir to the crown, has achieved a fragile alliance with Alera's oldest foes, the savage Canim. But when Tavi and his legions guide the Canim safely to their lands, his worst fears are realized. The dreaded Vord—the enemy of Aleran and Canim alike—have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland.

And when the Alerans are cut off from their ships, they find themselves with no choice but to fight shoulder to shoulder if they are to survive.

For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe. But the thousand years are over…

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate.

On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town, an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one.

In a small village, a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo, a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.

From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing.

Night World Volume 2 includes books four through six of the New York Times bestselling series by the author of The Vampire Diaries. Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.

In Dark Angel, Gillian is saved from drowning by her guardian angel. Only visible to Gillian, Angel will fulfill her heart's every desire. But when Angel starts making strange and sinister requests, Gillian must question who he truly is and where he came from.

Armed with a wooden stake, martial arts, and the will to resist a vampire's mind control, Rashel struggles to avenge her mother's death in The Chosen. Then she meets Quinn, her soulmate, who is part of the world she has vowed to destroy.

Hannah receives notes warning her of incredible danger in Soulmate. But if death is her destiny, is the Lord of the Night World's love strong enough to save her?

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together, they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms, and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work.

From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power.

Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, the Holocaust, and the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

Ender in Exile is a captivating addition to the acclaimed Ender series by Orson Scott Card. This novel is the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game.

In Ender's Game, the world's most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. However, they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.

After the life-changing events of those years, these children—now teenagers—must leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world. Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for years—where do they go now? What can they do?

Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he’s ever known to begin a relativistic—and revelatory—journey beyond the stars.

This story explores the untold years between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, capturing Ender's journey from the ages of 12 through 35. It is a profound exploration of war and society, filled with action and adventure, and features characters that readers will never forget.

Join Ender as he navigates the complexities of exile and discovers unexpected allies and adversaries. Ender in Exile is a must-read for fans of the series, offering a deeper understanding of Ender's universe and the events that shaped him.

In a gripping story of danger and heroism, L.A. sheriff's deputy Alex Brady fights crime during the worst fire season in California's history.

Now he faces the ultimate test. Will he have the courage to open his heart to love again?

One of the most popular and critically acclaimed book titles of all time, New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's masterpiece The Sandman set new standards for mature, lyrical fantasy and graphic narrative. Now, Vertigo and DC Comics are proud to present the last of four definitive Absolute Editions collecting this groundbreaking series in its entirety.

The Absolute Sandman, Volume Four reprints issues 57-75 of The Sandman and features an introduction by Karen Berger, editor of the original series and founder of the Vertigo imprint. This volume also includes a survey of exquisite memorabilia from the Dreaming, the original script and thumbnails by Gaiman and artist Marc Hempel for the first part of "The Kindly Ones" from The Sandman 57, and the complete script by Gaiman for the title's final issue, together with thumbnails, pencils, and paintings by artist Charles Vess.

If You Could Change Your Life by Reversing Your Biggest Regrets, Sorrows and Mistakes...Would You?

We weren't wealthy, we weren't poor -- we just were. We never wanted for anything, except maybe more time together....When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Although his life had gotten harder -- and money tighter -- since his father died and the family bakery closed...Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning.

What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball in the corner of his room.

Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood. It will take wrestling with himself, his faith, and his family -- and the guidance of a mysterious neighbor named Russell -- to help Eddie find his path through the storm clouds of life and finally see the real significance of that simple gift his mother had crafted by hand with love in her heart.

Based on a deeply personal true story, The Christmas Sweater is a warm and poignant tale of family, faith and forgiveness that offers us a glimpse of our own lives -- while also making us question if we really know what's most important in them.

Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration camp.

On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris — about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the “boy with the grey eyes,” about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the growing restrictions imposed by France’s Nazi occupiers.

Berr brought a keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking. The first day Berr has to wear the yellow star on her coat, she writes, “I held my head high and looked people so straight in the eye they turned away. But it’s hard.”

More, many more, humiliations were to follow, which she records, now with a view to posterity. She wants the journal to go to her fiancé, who has enrolled with the Free French Forces, as she knows she may not live much longer. She was right. The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling words: “Horror! Horror! Horror!”

Berr and her family were arrested three weeks later. She went — as was discovered later — on the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in April 1945, within a month of Anne Frank and just days before the liberation of the camp.

The journal did eventually reach her fiancé, and for over fifty years it was kept private. In 2002, it was donated to the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris.

Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Clive Barker creates an enchanting tale for both children and adults to cherish and retell. The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where every day is filled with fun, and Christmas comes every night. Illustrated.

One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives.

In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life. Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us.

Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers.

Readers learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have.

Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows readers how to become thoughtful observers of their own life. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.

Oliver Stone is the most wanted man in America; not the maverick filmmaker, but the covert agent whose real name is John Carr. Men in the highest circles of power want him dead, and they want him dead quickly, because he knows too many of their deepest secrets.

The members of the secretive Camel Club, on the other hand, not only want him alive; they are willing to risk their own lives to save their leader and friend. All of which sets up David Baldacci's thriller of relentless intensity, a perfect follow-up to his acclaimed Stone Cold.

As the hunters close in, Stone's flight from the demons of his past will take him from the power corridors of Washington, D.C., to the small, isolated coal-mining town of Divine, Virginia—and into a world every bit as lethal as the one he left behind.

Heir to Sevenwaters is a brand new novel in the beloved world of Sevenwaters, a fantasy series that should appeal to Lord of the Rings fans. The chieftains of Sevenwaters have long been custodians of a vast and mysterious forest, where human and Otherworld dwellers have existed side by side, sharing a wary trust. Until the spring when Lady Aisling of Sevenwaters finds herself expecting another child—a new heir to Sevenwaters.

Then, the family's joy turns to despair when the baby is taken from his room and something...unnatural is left in his place. To reclaim her newborn brother, Clodagh must enter the shadowy Otherworld and confront the powerful prince who rules there.

Allie Beckstrom would rather moonlight as a Hound than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. In this magical analog of Portland, Ore., magic use comes at a cost—hers include migraines and memory loss.

When she discovers a boy dying from a magic Offload with her father's signature, her father is murdered. Allie's quest for truth involves her country friend and the handsome man originally assigned as her bodyguard.

Someone is forging magic signatures—and hers is on her dead father. The forces she calls on in her search will make her capable of things others will do anything to control.

While the world carries on unawares, Stryker, who leads an army of demons and vampires, is plotting an all-out onslaught against his enemies—which, unfortunately for us, includes the entire human race.

To avenge his sister, Stryker prepares to annihilate the Dark-Hunters. But things go awry when his oldest enemy returns. Enter his ex-wife, Zephyra. Just when he thought nothing could stop him, he's now embroiled in a centuries-old war with a shrew who gives new meaning to pain.

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.

In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

I am Meredith, princess of faerie, wielder of the hands of Flesh and Blood, and at long last, I am with child – twins, fathered by my royal guard. Though my uncle, Taranis, King of Light and Illusion, claims that he is the true father since he abducted me from my home, betrayed, and defiled me. And now he has branded my guards as a threat to my unborn children.

Bearing an heir has placed me halfway to my aunt’s throne, that much closer to my reign over the Unseelie Court – and well ahead of her son, my cousin Cel, in this race. Now I must stay alive to see my children born and claim my place as queen.

But not all in faerie are pleased with the news, and conspirators from every court in the realm plot against me and mine. They seek to strip my guards, my lovers, from me by poisoned word or cold steel. But I still have supporters, and even friends, among the goblins and the sluagh, who will stand by me.

I am Meredith Nic Essus, and those who would defy and destroy me are destined to pay a terrible price – for I am truly my father’s daughter. To protect what is mine, I will sacrifice anything – even if it means waging a great battle against my darkest enemies and making the most momentous decision ever made as princess of faerie.

Personne ne l'a vue venir. La Grande Tempête : un ouragan de vent et de neige qui plonge le pays dans l'obscurité et l'effroi.

D'étranges éclairs bleus rampent le long des immeubles, les palpent, à la recherche de leurs proies...

Quand Matt et Tobias se sont éveillés, la Terre n'était plus la même. Désormais seuls, ils vont devoir s'organiser. Pour comprendre. Pour survivre. À cet Autre-Monde.

Keberanian dan keteguhan hati telah membawa Ikal pada banyak tempat dan peristiwa. Sudut-sudut dunia telah dia kunjungi demi menemukan A Ling. Apa pun Ikal lakukan demi perempuan itu.

Keberaniannya ditantang ketika tanda-tanda keberadaan A Ling tampak. Dia tetap mencari, meski tanda-tanda itu masih samar.

Dapatkah keduanya bertemu kembali?

Kylar Stern has rejected the assassin's life. In the wake of the Godking's violent coup, both his master and his closest friend are dead. His friend was Logan Gyre, heir to Cenaria's throne, but few of the ruling class survive to mourn his loss. So Kylar is starting over: new city, new companions, and new profession. But when he learns that Logan might be alive, trapped and in hiding, Kylar faces an impossible choice. He could give up the way of shadows forever, and find peace with his young family. Or Kylar could succumb to his flair for destruction, the years of training, to save his friend and his country - and lose all he holds precious.

This is a true story. An Archangel of the Lord appears to an unsuspecting housewife who had never been to church or read the Bible a day in her life. In doing the work of his Maker, God's angel prepares the spirit of this biblically ignorant woman for what is soon to come.

Then, Christ Jesus appears! Under the supervision of God's own Heart, and through multiple miraculous encounters, the woman derives her gifting and comes into intimate Communions with Christ, seeing deeply inside the mysteries of our Lord, while encountering a prophetic mystical journey quite holy in content and purpose.

By His Holy Spirit, God streams all manner of healing guidance into the heart of this once spiritual vacuum. The woman struggles to understand this joyous awakening and find faith enough to believe these revelations of mystery, and to obey God's requests.

Jesus speaks intimately to His children, offering prophetic messages of hope sent from our Father to heal, restore, and guide us into the days ahead. Sharon Ellis spends many exhilarating and obedient days in service to our Lord through divine intervention. Jesus talks to Sharon, teaching and imparting His mysteries. He allows her to hear Him.

Christ has done a marvelous thing in Sharon Ellis. His love has made her into the resurrected woman that God wants her to be. Our Father uses the unequipped and equips them with what they need. Sharon has evolved from the depths of oppression to a mighty warrior in the care of our Savior. God has dressed the woman in His armor and sent her to battle. From the depths of her ignorance He sends her to battle and He has been victorious. Her story is a supernatural miracle in the making. It's not over yet.

Zoey Redbird's life takes a sharp turn when she is Marked by a Vampire Tracker and enters the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. Unlike her peers, Zoey has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess Nyx, and she possesses affinities for all five elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and Spirit.

As Zoey strives to navigate her new life, she uncovers that she's not the only one with unique powers. The leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's prestigious club, is misusing her abilities. Zoey must summon the courage to confront this challenge and embrace her destiny, with a little support from her new vampyre friends—or as Aphrodite dubs them, the Nerd Herd.

An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter's disappearance.

It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small midwestern town. Her loving parents, her introverted sister, her friends and boyfriend must now do everything they can to find her. As desperate search parties give way to pleading television appearances, and private investigations yield to personal revelations, we see one town's intimate struggle to maintain hope and, finally, to live with the unknown.

Stewart O’Nan's new novel begins with the suspense and pacing of a thriller and soon deepens into an affecting family drama of loss. Songs for the Missing is an honest, heartfelt account of one family’s attempt to find their child. With a soulful empathy for these ordinary heroes, O’Nan draws us into the world of this small American town and allows us to feel a part of this family.

Един симпатичен луд българин в Америка, една торба прясна марихуана и безкраен път… От Мексико до Ню Йорк, през България на 90-те. Гангстери и любови, надежда и отчаяние, смях и тъга. Кино-история за всички нас – емигрантите от собственото си минало.

How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it? The Last Concubine is an epic love story closely based on historical events, chronicling 19th century Japan's extraordinary change from a medieval to a modern country.

This is the story of a shogun, a princess, and the three thousand women of the women's palace—all of whom really existed—and of the civil war that brought their way of life to an end.

Japan, 1865: The women's palace in the great city of Edo is a sprawling complex much like a Middle-Eastern harem. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man—the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen as his concubine. But Japan is changing.

Black Ships have arrived from the West, bringing foreigners eager to add Japan to their colonial empires. As civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for 'love'.

Before she dares dream of a life with him, Sachi must unravel the mystery of her own origins—a mystery that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her.

From the timeless beauty of the Women's Palace in Edo to bloody battles fought outside its walls, The Last Concubine is an epic evocation of a country in revolution, and of a young woman's quest to find out who she really is.

Je m’appelle Saad Saad, ce qui signifie en arabe Espoir Espoir et en anglais Triste Triste. Saad veut quitter Bagdad et son chaos, pour gagner l’Europe, la liberté, un avenir. Mais comment franchir les frontières sans un dinar en poche?

Tel Ulysse, il affronte les tempêtes, survit aux naufrages, échappe aux trafiquants d’opium, ignore le chant des sirènes, et doit s’arracher aux enchantements amoureux. Tour à tour absurde, bouffon, dramatique, le voyage sans retour de Saad commence…

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt conjugue habilement politique et magie orientale, raconte un pays en détresse et fait joyeusement revenir et parler les fantômes, mêle tragédie et fantaisie. Donne généreusement à comprendre et à rêver le monde.

انظر يا حبيبي .. انظر يا عريس نفسي كيف وقف الحساد حول مضجعنا .. انظر عيونهم المحدقة بنا و اسمع صرير أسنانهم وتكسّر ضلوعهم. قد انتظرتني طويلًا يا سليم .. فها أنذا قد كسرت القيود و فككت السلاسل، فلنُسرعنّ نحو الشمس فقد طال وقوفنا في الظل.

ها قد انمحت الرسوم و انحجبت الأشياء فلم اعد أرى سواك يا حبيبي.. هاشفتاي فاقتبل أنفاسي الأخيرة. هلُمّ نذهب يا سليم، فقد رفع الحب أجنحته و سبح أمامنا نحو دائرة النور.

و ألقت العروس صدرها على صدر حبيبها فامتزجت دماؤها بدمائه، و أحنت رأسها على عنقه، و ظلّت عيناها محدقتين بعينيه.

ليوناردو دافينشي كان أول إنسان عصري ابتكر إنسانًا آليًا قادرًا على الحركة. قام أيضًا بتصميم كمبيوتر رقمي وصنع أول صمامات صناعية للقلب. نحن اليوم نقدر ليوناردو كرسام قلب فن عصر النهضة رأسًا على عقب، أما الذين عاصروه فكانوا يشيدون به ويمتدحونه باعتباره عالمًا استطاع باكتشافاته الرائدة أن يدق ناقوسًا، إيذانًا بانطلاق عصر جديد، وأن يبتكر أسلوبًا جديدًا في التفكير.

ربط ليوناردو دافينشي مجالات علوم مختلفة ببعضها بطريقة غير مسبوقة، فهي مرة بديهية وأخرى ابتكارية ومتحررة من أي تابوهات (محرمات). استطاع مؤلف أكثر الكتب مبيعًا – ستيفان كلاين أن يفك طلاسم تراث هذا العبقري الشامل وأن يظهر لنا كيف نستطيع اليوم – أكثر من أي وقت مضى – أن نتعلم من طريقة تفكيره.

لقد كشف المؤلف سر الموناليزا، وأوضح لنا سبب ولع ليوناردو بالماء، كما شرح لنا السبب الحقيقي وراء حلمه بالطيران. يحكي لنا ستيفان كلاين عن رجل يمكن أن نرى فيه أنفسنا، يحكي لنا عن الشغف بالمعرفة وكآبة العوز والحاجة.

Wielki uczony - wciąż spragniony wiedzy o sensie istnienia - zawiera pakt z diabłem. Chce absolutnego poznania i doskonałego szczęścia - jeśli zazna chwili, o której powie „trwaj, jesteś piękna!” szatan będzie mógł wziąć jego duszę do piekła. Mefistofeles ochoczo zgadza się na to - wszak sprawdzić wiarę Fausta pozwolił mu sam Bóg.

Faust to dzieło życia Goethego, dramat o możliwościach ludzkiego poznania i sensie istnienia świata.

An astonishing dispatch from inside the belly of bipolar disorder, reflecting major new insights. When Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she did not yet have the piece of shattering knowledge that would finally make sense of the chaos of her life. At age twenty-four, Hornbacher was diagnosed with Type I rapid-cycle bipolar, the most severe form of bipolar disorder.

In Madness, in her trademark wry and utterly self-revealing voice, Hornbacher tells her new story. Through scenes of astonishing visceral and emotional power, she takes us inside her own desperate attempts to counteract violently careening mood swings by self-starvation, substance abuse, numbing sex, and self-mutilation. How Hornbacher fights her way up from a madness that all but destroys her, and what it is like to live in a difficult and sometimes beautiful life and marriage—where bipolar always beckons—is at the center of this brave and heart-stopping memoir.

Madness delivers the revelation that Hornbacher is not alone: millions of people in America today are struggling with a variety of disorders that may disguise their bipolar disease. And Hornbacher's fiercely self-aware portrait of her own bipolar as early as age four will powerfully change, too, the current debate on whether bipolar in children actually exists.

Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: is the young vampire in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? As controversy swirls, Schuyler is left stranded in the Force household, trapped under the same roof as her cunning nemesis, Mimi Force, and her forbidden crush, Jack Force.

When an ancient place of power is threatened in Rio de Janeiro, however, the Blue Bloods need Schuyler on their side. The stakes are high, the battle is bloody; and through it all Schuyler is torn between duty and passion, love and freedom. Romance, glamour, and vampire lore collide in the highly anticipated third book in best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz's Blue Bloods series.

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, The Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China.

In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers.

The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.

The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to collect organisms and dust for study. One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.

When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant.

Taking up temporary residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from Susan, who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has reemerged. Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and well, and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family and exacting revenge on his father's murderer—Susan Sutter.

At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction resurfaces and old passions begin to reignite. John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal. In The Gate House, acclaimed author Nelson DeMille brings us back to that fabled spot on the North Shore—a place where past, present, and future collide with often unexpected results.

Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of the legendary Mötley Crüe offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Mötley Crüe were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze.

The Heroin Diaries reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best, including bandmates Tommy, Vince, and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family, and finally, to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived.

Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.

Everything fans want to know about the hotly anticipated Twilight movie and much more!

Designed as a celebration of the film, this lavishly illustrated paperback edition is an exclusive behind-the-scenes guide featuring full-color photos of the cast, locations, and sets, as well as storyboards, interviews, details of the special effects, and much more.

"My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead." Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer. "Ways To Live Forever" is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny and honest, it is one of the most powerful and uplifting books you will ever read.

A finales del siglo IV antes de Cristo, Roma se encontraba a punto de ser aniquilada por los ejércitos cartagineses al mando de Aníbal. Ese era su inexorable destino hasta que surgió un solo hombre, un joven oficial de las legiones, que transformó lo que debía ocurrir en lo que finalmente fue: la génesis de un imperio y una civilización secular en el tiempo y en la historia del mundo.

Aquel niño recibió el nombre de su progenitor, Publio Cornelio Escipión, quien fuera cónsul de Roma durante el primer año de aquella guerra. Las hazañas del hijo del cónsul alcanzaron tal magnitud que el pueblo le concedió un sobrenombre especial, un apelativo referente a uno de los territorios que conquistó: Africanus.

Africanus, el hijo del cónsul narra con una prosa ágil y directa el tormentoso y a la vez fascinante mundo de la juventud de Publio Cornelio Escipión, el Africano. Esta novela describe con detalle las batallas de Tesino, Trebia, Trasimeno y Cannae, los asedios de Sagunto, Tarento o Cartago Nova, los tensos debates en el senado, las marchas forzadas de las legiones, el avance de los elefantes, las frías noches previas al combate, la amistad de los legionarios durante la campaña, el dolor de la muerte, el sinsentido de la guerra, el significado de la gloria y el honor, las costumbres y las tradiciones de una Roma milenaria.

Young Avengers Presents is a journey into the lives of the young heroes of the Marvel Universe post-Civil War. It features the characters Patriot, Hulkling, Wiccan, Speed, Vision, Stature, and Hawkeye. This collection explores where these characters have been and what their place is in the evolving landscape of the Marvel Universe.

The narrative unfolds over six chapters, each crafted by today's top creators, offering a deep dive into the trials and tribulations of these beloved characters.

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl?

As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom.

Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the unthinkable happens to Ruth, Isabel realizes her loyalty is available to the bidder who can provide her with freedom.

From acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson comes this compelling, impeccably researched novel that shows the lengths we can go to cast off our chains, both physical and spiritual.

Extreme Measures is a gripping political thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. The story introduces a modern-day patriot and hero, Mitch Rapp, who loves his country even when it betrays itself.

Led by a dangerous mastermind obsessed with becoming the leader of al-Qaeda, a determined and terrifying terrorist group is about to descend on America. With Rapp away on assignment in Pakistan, CIA Director Irene Kennedy turns to his protégé, Mike Nash. Nash has served his government honorably for sixteen years, first in the Marine Corps and then as an operative in an elite counterterrorism team run by Rapp.

Together, they have made careers out of meeting violence with extreme violence and have never wavered in their fight against the jihads and their culture of death. Both have fought the war on terrorism in secret without accolades or acknowledgment of their personal sacrifices. But the political winds have changed in America, and certain leaders on Capitol Hill are pushing to have men like Rapp and Nash put back on a short leash.

Using his insider knowledge of intelligence agencies and the military, Flynn delivers an all-too-real portrayal of a war that is waged every day by a handful of brave, devoted souls. Smart, fast-paced, and jaw-droppingly realistic, Extreme Measures is the political thriller of our time.

A novel for teens and adults based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

"I love him more than poetry... I love him more than song." Ever since he rescued her from Certain Death, Rose Brier has had a crush on Ben Denniston, otherwise known as Fish. But Fish, struggling with problems of his own, thinks that Rose should go looking elsewhere for a knight in shining armor. Trying to forget him, Rose goes to college, takes up with a sword-wielding band of brothers, and starts an investigation into her family's past that proves increasingly mysterious.

Then a tragic accident occurs, and Fish, assisted by Rose's new friends, finds himself drawn into a search through a tangle of revenge and corruption that might be threatening Rose's very life. The climax is a crucible of fear, fight, and fire that Fish must pass through to reach Rose and conquer his dragons.