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The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short stories, including “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower, as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. "Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant."--CosmopolitanAward-winning Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as ¿the group.¿ An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult lives -- traveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group.

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.

Selected by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, an inspiring collection of 300 poems from writers around the world. Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things?his personal selection of poems from the past and present?is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Milosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as "Travel," "History," and "The Secret of a Thing," that make the reading as instructional as it is inspirational and remind us how powerfully poetry can touch our minds and hearts.

A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER,WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEAfter the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan??-??and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

CliffsNotes AP Biology 2021 Exam gives you exactly what you need to score a 5 on the exam: concise chapter reviews on every AP Biology subject, in-depth laboratory investigations, and full-length model practice exams to prepare you for the May 2021 exam.

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military disciplinewhether they're ready or notas the U.S. prepares to enter World War I.

Camp returns to his otherworldly New Orleans of The City of Lost Fortunes for a new novel that evokes the magic, mystery, and mythology of Neil Gaiman's American Gods with a female protagonist that calls to mind the power and personality of Chuck Wendig's Miriam Black (Blackbirds).

For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germanywhere she fell in love and had a child decades earlierto confront her past at her former mother-in-law's funeral.

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Awardwinning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature.

A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon Censor.

If Ankylosaurus were alive today, you might be able to ride it to school-after all, it was bigger than a school bus. And if Diplodocus was on your basketball team, you'd always be sure to win the game; his body would stretch the length of the court! In this fact- and fancy-filled book about dinosaurs, Bernard Most shows just how the largest of these prehistoric creatures would measure up in today's child's world. A six-page foldout helps show how big the biggest dinosaur really was.

An electrifying debut novel of obsessive love, family secrets,andthe dangers of living our lives online

Now in paperback, the beautifully written family drama with a mystery at its core*about two sisters left homeless by their mothers death, and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge *Joshilyn Jackson, author of The Opposite of Everyone and gods in Alabama

From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel aboutaPalestinian family caught between present and past, betweendisplacement and home

An entertaining, unfiltered memoir by one of the game's greatest, most clutch sluggers at the end of his career, written with best-selling sports writer and talk show hostMichael Holley

A young woman is swept up in the glamour and excitement of chasing the title of Miss America 1950only to vanish the night she wins.

Se7en meets The Silence of the Lambs when a notorious serial killer is hit by a bus while delivering his signature message, leaving detective Sam Porter days to locate the last victim using clues from the killer's disturbing diary, words that taunt Sameven from beyond the grave.

Hell on earth is only one click of a mouse away in acclaimed writer Benjamin Percy's terrifying new horror novel.

A Best Book of the Year NPR * Kirkus * Elle * Bustle* Globe and Mail * Amazon *Buzzfeed * Vogue * Book Riot A wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.

The gripping true story of the origins of the mafia in Americaand the heroic Italian-born detective in New York City who devoted his life to putting a stop to it

Get to know one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln, through his speeches, writings, and letters.Author Milton Meltzer provides historical context for Lincolns words, anddramatic illustrations byStephen Alcorn complete this handsome volume, now available in paperback.

This provocative business management book profiles highly successful companies that are experimenting with new strategies and tactics to better engage their employees and customers. The strategies may seem counterintuitive at first, but they are backed by solid, evidence-based behavioral scienceand are an integral contributor to these companies' high performance and customer loyalty. The author provides significant and timely research to bolster his contention that many traditional management approaches need to be upgraded.

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next. Welcome to the world of Sand, a novel by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey. Sand is an exploration of lawlessness, the tale of a land ignored. Here is a people left to fend for themselves. Adjust your ker and take a last, deep breath before you enter.

A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe

From a New York Times best-sellingauthor,the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre, footballs ultimate gunslinger and fan favorite, whose rise from small-town Mississipi obscurity to the top of the American sports landscape was the stuff of legendand whose fall from grace has been just as great

A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prizewinning author who alternates biography witha memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry workshop

From the celebrated star of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, an inspiring, uplifting, and candid memoir of how she got there

The essential poems, selected by Donald Hall:';the hard-won achievement of a lifetime' (Wall Street Journal)