Written and compiled by baseball expert DanSchlossberg, this book is chock-full of the best trivia,information, and fun facts about the game. Featuringinterviews with players, managers, and otherbaseball professionals, as well as never-before-toldstories, Baseball Bits is sure to hit a home run withjust ... more »

Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange behavior. When Sophie shows up in a short, red cocktail dress and her friend's ... more »

For decades they have remained close, sharing treasured recipes, honored customs, and the challenges of women shaped by ancient ways yet living modern lives. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their American daughters to the mothers who left India to start anewdaughters now grown and ... more »

In New York City, there are at least three times as many doors as people. I work behind those closed doors. I work in darkness even when the light is on. My name is Night and I do night work. Dark-skinned chocolate, sexy and smooth, Night earns his keep by pleasuring rich white women around New York ... more »

The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way. From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

Richard Tarnas's The Passion of the Western Mind--acclaimed by leading voices in philosophy, religion, psychology, and history--sets the stage for this major work, thirty years in the making, that dramatically reframes our understanding of the universe in the light of extraordinary new evidence. Cosmos ... more »

Bestselling author Treasure E. Blue returns with a gritty against-all-odds urban fairy tale set in the same unforgiving neighborhood as that of his breakout debut novel Harlem Girl Lost. Desire was born on the streets of Harlem-literally. Her mom, a crack-addicted prostitute, delivered her on a bitter ... more »

Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him exactly how ... more »

... specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy. * Penguin Readers Guide Bound into Every Book * A Business Week bestseller for eight weeks From Kirkus Reviews: A look at the future through a rose-tinted ... more »

Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy's debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful ... more »

James Lee Burke's new novel, Swan Peak, finds Detective Robicheaux far from his New Iberia roots, attempting to relax in the untouched wilderness of rural Montana. He, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to stay at an old friend's ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying ... more »

Shakespeare: the ultimate self-help guru and life coach.Bard expert Laurie Maguire brings her knowledge and love of Shakespeare to bear on the great-and small-challenges that everybody faces. As she illustrates in this witty, accessible, and unique self-help book, all one really needs is Shakespeare ... more »