Cormac McCarthy's bleak vision of the American landscape has always had a cataclysmic undertone, so it comes as no surprise that THE ROAD is actually set in a post-apocalyptic world of ash and bitter cold where cannibalistic marauders roam the countryside. In this dire place, a man and his son travel towards the sea armed only with a revolver and t...more
Barcelona, 1945A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Caraxs other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been system...more
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin...more
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neigh...more
Every six seconds a woman in America is raped, yet 98 percent of those victims never see their rapists serve a prison term, according to a recent Senate Judiciary Committee report. As a frontline prosecutor and then as chief of the Special Victims Bureau in the Queens district attorney's office in New York City, Alice Vachss specialized in the most...more
"Think you're already a pretty good networker and there's nothing you can learn from any book?" is the question posed in The Foreword to WORK THE POND! Tom Donohue, CEO of the largest business association in the world, the US Chamber of Commerce, answers it: "You'll be pleasantly surprised starting with the very first chapter" of WORK THE POND! ...more
From 1792 to 1795, George Vancouver sailed the Pacific as the captain of his own expedition — and as an agent of imperial ambition. To map a place is to control it, and Britain had its eyes on America's Pacific coast. And map it Vancouver did. His voyage was one of history’s greatest feats of maritime daring, discovery, and diplomacy, and his m...more
In the wake of the microbial plague that decimated the world, the bioengineered children of Idlewild have spent the last eighteen years raising the next generation to inherit the Earth-a generation both human and post-human, divided into factions by the genetics used to create them. But as the factions clash over the future of humanity, an even dea...more
The post-humans have eradicated all trace of the Black Ep virus that nearly extinguished the human race. Now, the human survivors who slept in cryo-stasis during the epidemic are awake— and they’re just as power hungry as ever...
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