Books

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.

Vintage paperback

From back of 410 EXERCISES. HUNDREDS OF WORKOUTS. ONE NEW YOURS! Based on the wildly successful Women's Health BIG BOOK OF EXERCISES, this new LITTLE BOOK is the essential, portable workout guide for any woman who wants to lose weight,, tone trouble spots, or build strength. Through step-by-step instructions (complete with color photos), beginners and longtime fitness buffs alike will learn how to perfectly execute the best fat-torching, muscle-toning moves ever choreographed. Fresh workouts and loads of tips from top trainers make this compact yet comprehensive collection of exercises the roadmap you need to firm up your abs, arms, legs, butt, and sculpt the body you've always wanted.

From the acclaimed author of  The Book of Night Women  comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. 

واقتناعا منه ببراءة كالاس الذي أُعدم عام 1762، وضع فولتير قلمه في خدمة العدالة ليطلب إعادة تأهيله. اتُهم التاجر الهوجوينوتي بقتل ابنه الذي أراد التحول إلى الكاثوليكية. وبسخرية لاذعة وأسلوب لا يضاهى، يدعو الكاتب إلى احترام المعتقدات وروح التسامح. تأمل حديث للغاية حول النظام القضائي، ومسؤولية القضاة والآثار الضارة للقوانين.

Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. In this stunning follow-up to the global phenomenon "The Da Vinci Code," Dan Brown demonstrates once again why he is the world's most popular thriller writer. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling--a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths . . . all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom. When Langdon's beloved mentor, Peter Solomon--a prominent Mason and philanthropist--is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations--all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.

Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays by his GED students, Jake reads a gruesome, enthralling piece penned by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry somehow survived his father’s sledgehammer slaughter of his entire family. Jake is blown away

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twentyone pilots out of the sky!