By Bill Bryson
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history,...
By Alan Moore ,
Dave Gibbons (Illustrator/Letterer), John Higgins (Colorist)
This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the...
By Lemony Snicket ,
Brett Helquist (Illustrator)
Dear Reader,You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book...
By Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison, John Jay, Philo-Publius, Clinton Rossiter (Editor), Charles R. Kessler (Introduction)
The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles encouraging the ratification of the United States Constitution. The Federalist Papers serve as a...
By Rebecca Skloot
From the back cover:
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells--taken without...
By Albert Camus,
Matthew Ward (Translator)
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By William Shakespeare,
Robert Jackson (Editor), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)
By Richard Adams
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By Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together...
By Cassandra Clare
Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]
ACE #1
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home...