Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door—men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men?

As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare—one from which she may never escape.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career: from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends, to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising.

In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available in paperback.

Angela's Ashes begins with a stark reflection: "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."

Thus starts the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, struggles to provide for her children as Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and his wages usually end up at the pub.

Despite Malachy's flaws—his exasperating nature and irresponsibility—he instills in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can offer: a story. Frank becomes enthralled with his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.

Enduring poverty, near-starvation, and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors, Frank's narrative is one of resilience and survival, told with eloquence, exuberance, and a remarkable capacity for forgiveness. His story is one that touches on the universal truths of the human spirit, underscored by a persistent sense of humor and compassion.

A Land Remembered is a best-selling novel by Patrick Smith that tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons.

The story begins in 1858 with Tobias MacIvey, who arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son. It spans two generations, ending in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes the land has been exploited far beyond human need.

This sweeping tale is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. Their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own.

Love and tenderness are woven throughout: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife.

A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously—and fatally—plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea.

Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford's long-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate.

Now, flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorous preserves of the world's super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, for stakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has had a dramatic impact on computer science curricula over the past decade. This long-awaited revision contains changes throughout the text. There are new implementations of most of the major programming systems in the book, including the interpreters and compilers, and the authors have incorporated many small changes that reflect their experience teaching the course at MIT since the first edition was published.

A new theme has been introduced that emphasizes the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming and lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. There are new example sections on higher-order procedures in graphics and on applications of stream processing in numerical programming, and many new exercises. In addition, all the programs have been reworked to run in any Scheme implementation that adheres to the IEEE standard.

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes, and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days.

The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic, and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices.

Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican immigrants Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.

Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son.

Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind of investigating the good ole boy cops can't - or won't - do. In Grovetown, they encounter a redneck police chief, a sadistic Christmas tree grower, and townsfolk itching for a lynching.

Add to this a dark night exhumation in a voodoo graveyard, a thunderstorm of Biblical proportions, and flat-out sudden murder. Hap and Leonard vow to face the hate and find Florida, even if Leonard has to put a hole in anyone who gets in the way. Besides, they've packed a lunch.

"It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . ."

Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the birth of her child. Isolated in a crumbling colonial mansion, in a room with bars on the windows, the tortuous pattern of the yellow wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind.

A Civil Action is a gripping non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr that delves into the harrowing tale of a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts, during the 1980s. The narrative begins when Anne Anderson, a mother whose child is diagnosed with leukemia, notices an alarming prevalence of this rare disease in her community. Her determination leads her to gather other affected families and seek out the services of lawyer Jan Schlichtmann.

Initially hesitant to take on the case due to scant evidence and no clear defendant, Schlichtmann eventually uncovers clues pointing to trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination of the town's water supply. This contamination is linked to Riley Tannery, a subsidiary of Beatrice Foods, along with a chemical company, W. R. Grace, and another company named Unifirst.

Throughout the lawsuit, Schlichtmann enlists the help of other attorneys. However, the grueling discovery process and trial stretch their resources to the limit. The book paints a vivid picture of the legal battles, heartache, and moral dilemmas faced by those involved.

With its compelling narrative and deep exploration of justice versus corporate power, A Civil Action is not only a thrilling read but also an enlightening one, illustrating the profound impact one determined individual can have in the face of adversity.

Brazil is a tale of love that transcends societal boundaries and takes readers on an enthralling journey through the vibrant landscapes of South America. In the dream-Brazil of John Updike's imagining, almost anything is possible if you are young and in love.

When Tristão Raposo, a black nineteen-year-old from the Rio slums, and Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, meet on Copacabana Beach, their flight from family and into marriage takes them to the farthest reaches of Brazil’s phantasmagoric western frontier. Privation, violence, captivity, and reversals of fortune afflict them, yet this latter-day Tristan and Iseult cling to the faith that each is the other's fate for life.

Spanning twenty-two years, from the sixties through the eighties, Brazil surprises with its celebration of passion, loyalty, romance, and New World innocence.

Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand.

All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots... to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.

Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy?

Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer willing to live without answers, he turns to his daughter-in-law, Justine, another Peck family eccentric. A studied tarot card reader, Justine comes across one message over and over in the cards: change is coming. With Daniel’s help, she’s hoping to find the courage to embrace whatever happens next.

An unlikely pair struggling against a stifling family, Daniel and Justine believe they’ll find freedom in just the right mix of magic, music, and mystery.

The Proud Tower offers a vivid portrait of the world in the years leading up to World War I, a time marked by rapid and unprecedented change.

During this fateful quarter century, a privileged few basked in Olympian luxury, while the underclass was heaving in its pain, power, and hate.

Barbara W. Tuchman brings the era to life, depicting the decline of the Edwardian aristocracy, the rise of Anarchists in Europe and America, and Germany's self-depicted hero, Richard Strauss.

The narrative explores Diaghilev’s Russian ballet, Stravinsky’s music, and the infamous Dreyfus Affair. It delves into the Peace Conferences in The Hague and the enthusiasm and tragedy of Socialism, epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the eve of the Great War.

This work is part of Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series, alongside The Guns of August and The Zimmermann Telegram.

This is the original 1937 version of Napoleon Hill's Classic Book: Think and Grow Rich. To the greatest extent possible, the text and formatting have been kept exactly the same as in the original release with the exception of some minor formatting changes.

It's Midsummer Night. No time for dreaming...

With a full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers, and one orang-utan, Lords and Ladies sees Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven up against real elves.

And they're spectacularly nasty creatures. Even in a world of dwarves, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers – and the odd orang-utan – this is going to cause trouble...

Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found.

The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.

Fight Club follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.

In this novel, Chuck Palahniuk offers a dark and provocative look into the depths of the human psyche, delivering a tale that is as unsettling as it is compelling. With biting satire and a unique voice, Fight Club has become a modern classic, exploring themes of identity, consumerism, and the search for meaning in a contemporary world.

Love, death, coming of age, and Native American spiritual beliefs flow together with the forces of nature in this engrossing novel. It is a story of loss and redemption, family and community, the western panorama, and the landscape of the heart.

This is a moving family portrait etched in the rugged terrain of a small town in Oregon. The lives of young Culver, his twice-married mother, and his charismatic uncle Jake have always been overshadowed by the death of Culver's father in a fishing accident. When a suspicious fire destroys the town mill and three murders occur, Culver is engulfed by the dangers he finds lurking in the place he'd come to call home.

Death and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Meša Selimović. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century during the Ottoman Turk hegemony over the Balkans. When his brother is arrested, he must descend into the Kafkaesque world of the Ottoman authorities in his search to discover what happened to him.

He narrates his story in the form of an elaborate suicide note, regularly misquoting the Koran. In time, he begins to question his relations with society as a whole and, eventually, his life choices in general. Hugely successful when published in the 1960s, Death and the Dervish is an enduring classic that was made into a feature length film in 1974.

A runaway Jumbo jet has crashed into the Capitol Building in Washington, leaving the President dead along with most of the Cabinet and Congress. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before was confirmed as the new caretaker Vice-President is told that he is now President of the United States.

President John Patrick Ryan must navigate the complexities of running a government without a government. Where do you begin? Ryan knows that the eyes of the world are on him now—and many of them are unfriendly. In Beijing, Tehran, and even in Washington, there are those eager to take advantage.

Soon, they will make their moves; soon, they will present Jack Ryan with a crisis so immense that even he could not imagine it.

Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy... and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict—for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"—Bobby chose to take his own life.

Prayers for Bobby is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be "healed," then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth.

As told through Bobby's poignant journal entries and his mother's reminiscences, Prayers for Bobby is at once a moving personal story, a true profile in courage, and a call to arms to parents everywhere.

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne.

At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself. Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens.

Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.

Estes são tempos negros para Robert Baratheon, rei dos Sete Reinos. Do outro lado do mar, uma imensa horda de selvagens organizou-se para invadir o seu reino. À frente deles está Daenerys Targaryen, a última herdeira da dinastia que Robert massacrou para conquistar o trono. E os Targaryen são famosos pelo seu rancor e crueldade...

Mais perto, para lá da muralha de gelo que se estende a norte, uma força misteriosa manifesta-se de maneira sobrenatural. E quem vive à sombra da muralha não tem dúvidas: os Outros vêm aí e o que trazem é bem pior do que a própria morte...

Ainda mais perto, na Corte, as conspirações continuam. O ódio entre as várias Casas aumenta e desta vez o sangue vai jorrar. E quando parece que nada pode piorar, o rei é ferido mortalmente numa caçada. Terá sido um acidente ou um assassinato? Seja como for, uma coisa é certa: a guerra civil vem aí!

George R. R. Martin prova porque é o maior escritor de fantasia da actualidade. Com uma imaginação poderosa, escrita inteligente e personagens cativantes, volta a deixar o leitor rendido e a ansiar por mais. Se gosta de um romance histórico épico, de um thriller arrepiante, de uma aventura emocionante, de uma fantasia credível e, em suma, de uma grande leitura... então este livro é para si.

Mickey Sabbath is a comic creation of epic proportions, and at sixty-four, he is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. Sex is both an obsession and a principle, serving as an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence.

Following the death of his long-time mistress—a free-spirited woman with a taste for the impermissible that matches his own—Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a series of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.

Sabbath's Theater is Philip Roth at the peak of his powers, delivering a narrative that is both hilarious and profoundly moving.

Unearthly Beauty

There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter. Mark is obsessed with Jade, but she and her sisters have a secret.

When Mark and Mary-Lynnette follow them into the woods one night, they are plunged into a nightmare beyond their imagination. The sisters are fugitives from the Night World, and their brother Ash is hot on their trail. He's ruthless, gorgeous, and has orders to bring the girls back at all costs. When he sees Mary-Lynnette, he decides to take her too...

Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers.

Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad.

When young Alec of Kerry is taken prisoner for a crime he didn’t commit, he is certain that his life is at an end. But one thing he never expected was his cellmate. Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things–none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them.

Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine, and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec’s new mentor, and this time there just might be…Luck in the Shadows.

One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning, her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure garden.

Brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works.

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours... Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the heavy air of summer.

In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted in search of healing herbs. She is as hopelessly unbridled - and unsuited for marriage - as her betrothed sister Laurel is domestic. In Corbet's pale green eyes, Rois senses a desperate longing. In her restless dreams, mixed with the heady warmth of harvest wine, she hears him beckon. And as autumn gold fades, Rois is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past - until, across the frozen countryside and in flight from her own imagination, truth and dreams become inseparable...

Fred Scully is eagerly waiting at the airport to reunite with his wife and daughter after two years of traveling through Europe. He envisions a new life for them, filled with stability and hope, in a cottage that he has lovingly renovated in the Irish countryside.

However, as the flight lands and the airport doors hiss open, only his seven-year-old daughter, Billie, steps out. Scully's world shatters as he discovers his wife is missing, leaving behind no note or explanation. This unexpected turn of events thrusts him into a desperate search across Europe, trying to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

The Riders is a haunting and beautifully written tale that delves into the complexities of love, marriage, and the bonds between a father and his daughter. It explores the deep-rooted fears and challenges in relationships, and the resilience needed to move forward despite life's uncertainties.

Join Scully on this gripping odyssey, as he navigates through emotional turmoil and the shadows of his past, in a poignant story that captures the essence of human resilience and the enduring power of family ties.

Delmore Schwartz said about The Cantos, "They are one of the touchstones of modern poetry."

William Carlos Williams commented, "[Pound] discloses history by its odor, by the feel of it—in the words; fuses it with the words, present and past, to MAKE his Cantos. Make them."

Since the 1969 revised edition, the Italian Cantos LXXII and LXXIII (as well as a 1966 fragment concluding the work) have been added. Now appearing for the first time is Pound's recently found English translation of Italian Canto LXXII.

Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men, kings, and Gods.

When the world was young and Gods still walked among their mortal children, a headstrong orphan boy set out to explore the world. Thus began the extraordinary adventures that would mold that youthful vagabond into a man, and the man into the finely honed instrument of Prophecy known to all the world as Belgarath the Sorcerer.

Then came the dark day when the Dark God Torak split the world asunder, and the God Aldur and his disciples began their monumental labor to set Destiny aright. Foremost among their number was Belgarath. His ceaseless devotion was foredoomed to cost him that which he held most dear—even as his loyal service would extend through echoing centuries of loss, of struggle, and of ultimate triumph.

Alfred Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre.

Refused for publication in the author's lifetime, Exploits and Opinion of Dr. Faustroll recounts the adventures of the inventor of Pataphysics...the science of imaginary solutions.

Pataphysics has since inspired artists as diverse as Marcel Duchamp and the 60s rock band Soft Machine, as well as the mythic literary organization the College de Pataphysique.

Simon Watson Taylor's superb annotated translation was first published by Grove Press in 1965 as part of their now out-of-print collection, Selected Works of Alfred Jarry. As a result, this most important novel by Jarry has never before been published under its own title in English.

Includes three of the best-loved classics in children's literature:

Charlotte's Web is a Newbery Award-winning story of one fine swine and a spider named Charlotte who changed his life forever.

The Trumpet of the Swan is the joyous tale of Louis, a trumpeter swan in search of his voice.

Stuart Little is the story of a most unusual mouse that sets out on the adventure of a lifetime.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea is a groundbreaking and accessible book by Daniel C. Dennett, a renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist. Dennett focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, demonstrating how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe.

Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions. He challenges the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day, offering a powerful defense of evolutionary thinking.

This work explores every aspect of evolutionary theory, showing why it is fundamental to our existence and affirms our convictions about the meaning of life. Dennett's engaging style makes the complex subject matter accessible and compelling for any thinking person.

Widely respected and admired, Philip Fisher is among the most influential investors of all time. His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

This book is invaluable reading and has been since it was first published in 1958. The updated paperback retains the investment wisdom of the original edition and includes the perspectives of the author's son Ken Fisher, an investment guru in his own right, in an expanded preface and introduction.

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings is the updated edition of the 1958 original publication, presenting Fisher's ideas to a new generation of investors. It contains all the investment wisdom of the original edition, along with an expanded foreword and introduction by Ken Fisher.

Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and highly radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as Precious learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it her own for the first time.

The Old Man and the Sea is a modern classic that tells the tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses. Told with superb simplicity, it is a tale of an old fisherman's endurance against the elements and the high seas.

Ernest Hemingway's last novel published in his lifetime, this novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and was a significant factor in his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

That Hideous Strength, the final installment of the Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis, unfolds a dark narrative set against the looming threats of World War II. This novel serves as a timeless parable, cherished across generations not only for its captivating storytelling but also for its profound moral insights. At the heart of this tale is Dr. Elwin Ransom, a character of remarkable brilliance, clarity, and courage, inspired by Lewis's close friend J.R.R. Tolkien.

In this narrative, the forces of darkness, previously thwarted in Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, gather for an all-out assault on Earth itself. Rumors abound that the legendary wizard Merlin has returned, offering ultimate power to those who can control him. Amidst this turmoil, a nefarious technocratic organization, N.I.C.E. (the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments), emerges, aiming to 'recondition' society with Merlin's aid. Dr. Ransom assembles a counterforce, Logres, setting the stage for a climactic showdown that concludes the trilogy in a spectacular fashion.

Henderson the Rain King is a captivating tale of a middle-aged American millionaire who embarks on a spiritual safari in Africa. His journey is not just a physical one, but also a quest for deeper meaning and truth in his life.

Henderson becomes an almost god-like figure among the tribes due to his remarkable feats of strength and his uncanny ability to bring rain, earning him adoration and respect. This story beautifully blends humor, adventure, and philosophical musings, making it a timeless classic.

Saul Bellow masterfully crafts a narrative that is as much about the inner journey as it is about the external adventures. Henderson the Rain King is a novel that explores themes of self-discovery, cultural encounters, and the universal search for meaning.

Humboldt's Gift is a self-described "comic book about death", whose title character is modeled on the self-destructive lyric poet Delmore Schwartz. Charlie Citrine, an intellectual, middle-aged author of award-winning biographies and plays, contemplates two significant figures and philosophies in his life:

Von Humboldt Fleisher, a dead poet who had been his mentor, and Rinaldo Cantabile, a very-much-alive minor mafioso who has been the bane of Humboldt's existence. Humboldt had taught Charlie that art is powerful and that one should be true to one's own creative spirit. Rinaldo, Charlie's self-appointed financial adviser, has always urged Charlie to use his art to turn a profit.

At the novel's end, Charlie has managed to set his own course.

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation.

Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.

The diagnosis for Poppy was death. There was no hope—until James, her best friend and secret love, appeared in the hospital. But this was a James she didn't know. He offered Poppy eternal life. Only he could open the door to the Night World. They're soulmates—but can she follow him into death and beyond?

Duncan took almost 10 years to follow up the publication of his much-praised first novel, The River Why, but this massive second effort is well worth the wait. It is a stunning work: a complex tapestry of family tensions, baseball, politics and religion, by turns hilariously funny and agonizingly sad. Highly inventive formally, the novel is mainly narrated by Kincaid Chance, the youngest son in a family of four boys and identical twin girls, the children of Hugh Chance, a discouraged minor-league ballplayer whose once-promising career was curtained by an industrial accident, and his wife Laura, an increasingly fanatical Seventh-Day Adventist. The plot traces the working-out of the family's fate from the beginning of the Eisenhower years through the traumas of Vietnam.

By turns uproariously funny and deeply moving, and beautifully written throughout, The Brothers K is one of the finest chronicles of our lives in many years.

The Deep End of the Ocean is a powerful story that imagines every mother's worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child. This nationwide bestseller and critical success was the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club.

The novel is both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, exploring a family's struggle to endure even against extraordinary odds. It is filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life.

Here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.

The Giant's House is an unusual love story about a little librarian on Cape Cod and the tallest boy in the world. This magical first novel from Elizabeth McCracken captures the essence of unexpected connections and the beauty of peculiar relationships.

Set in the year 1950, in a quaint town on Cape Cod, twenty-six-year-old librarian Peggy Cort feels like love and life have stood her up. That is, until the day James Carlson Sweatt—the "over tall" eleven-year-old boy who's the talk of the town—walks into her library and changes her life forever.

Two misfits whose lonely paths cross at the circulation desk, Peggy and James are odd candidates for friendship. Yet, they soon find their lives entwined in ways neither could have predicted. In James, Peggy discovers the one person who's ever truly understood her, and as he grows—six foot five at age twelve, then seven feet, then eight—so does her heart and their singular romance.

The Giant's House is a tender and quirky novel about learning to welcome unexpected miracles and the strength of choosing love in a world that offers no promises or guarantees.

Microserfs is a novel by Douglas Coupland that takes readers into the world of overworked coders at Microsoft in the early 1990s. The story is narrated by Dan Underwood, a computer programmer who documents his life and the lives of his friends in the form of a Powerbook entry.

These six "microserfs" are code-crunching computer whizzes, spending upward of 16 hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods, such as Kraft singles, passed under doors. They live in constant anticipation of the great Bill's emails, fearing whether he might "flame" one of them.

Seizing a chance to become innovators instead of just cogs in the Microsoft machine, they strike out on their own to form a high-tech start-up named Oop! in Silicon Valley. Living together in a digital flophouse—"Our House of Wayward Mobility"—they strive to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the digital chaos.

Funny, illuminating, and ultimately touching, Microserfs is the story of one generation's strange and claustrophobic coming of age in a tech-driven world.