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Its scary to know the fate of the world lies in your handsbut even scarier to learn that it might be in your brothers  Its the last night of summer and Oliver is hoping to have some fun with his two best friends. Once school starts, hell be one step closer to receiving his demon . . . and fulfilling the prophecy to open the Nexia Gate.   Meanwhile, a series of gruesome animal attacks on humans has threatened to expose the vampire world. The evidence points to Olivers brother, Bane, who has recently acquired Occupying powerthe ability to inhabit animals. Yet Oliver, Emalie, and Dean suspect something else is going ona sinister plot that involves Olivers destiny, and possibly the mystery surrounding his human parents. Bane may hold the key to Oliver uncovering his past and changing his futureif the Half-Light Consortium doesnt get to him first.

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And Other True Tales of Murder and Madness

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Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe presents the chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he lovedplus eight other true stories that expose the psychological forces that drive seemingly respectable people to commit violent, unexpected crimesA professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, a suburban husband, and father of three, William Douglas secretly frequented Bostons Combat Zone, a world of pimps, pushers, and porn shops. One night in 1982 he met twenty-year-old prostitute and former art student Robin Benedict, with whom he began a torrid affair that would end in murder. With the revealing psychological insights that made her previous books such riveting character studies, Wolfe depicts the catastrophic results of Douglass living out his secret love fantasies and the complex police investigation that brought the professor to justice. Among the eight shorter true-crime stories included in this volume is the case of the notorious Marcus twins, Manhattan gynecologists and drug addicts who were found dead together in an Upper East Side apartment. Wolfe also takes readers into the gay and transsexual clubs of 1980s New York for a twisted story of love and murder, and to the Texas suburbs, where a privileged fourteen-year-old boy takes a semiautomatic to his parents one sweltering July morning. 

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A freak accident forces a New Yorker to return to Louisiana and confront her Cajun pastThere is nothing more dangerous than a spooked rhinoceros. It is just before lunchtime when Huey, the prized black rhino of Broussard, Louisiana, erupts from his enclosure, trampling a zoo employee on his way to a rampage in the Cajun countryside. The incident makes the rounds online as News of the Weird, and Katherine Fontenot is laughing along with the rest of her New York office when she notices the name of the hurt zookeeper: Karen-Anne Castilleher sister.Fifty years old, lonely, and in danger of being laid off, Katherine has spent decades trying to ignore her Louisiana roots. Forced home by Karen-Annes accident, she remembers everything about the bayou that she wanted to escape: the heat, the mosquitoes, and the constant, crushing embrace of family. But when forced to confront the ghosts of her past, she discovers that escape might never have been necessary.

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From the author of The Rules of Magic: A novel of a Long Island family matriarch and her namesake granddaughter who discover the power the past holds over their present. Esther the Black is eighteen years old and ready to leave the Compound, the collection of cottages on the North Shore of Long Island where she has lived all her life. But as July turns to August and her family braces for the height of Drowning Season, she realizes that she may not be able to escape her familys legacy. Her father will find a way through the locked sea-wall gate and try to drown himself in the harbor, her mother will be too hung over to leave her cottage for days at a time, and her grandmother will refuse to say a single kind word.   Esther the White left home when she was just a girl, fleeing her abusive parents across a frozen Russian river with a pocketful of stolen jewels. Life has taught her to be cold and unyielding, but in the heat of another fraught summer at the Compound, she feels her resolve melting away. Cohen, the landscaper and chauffeur responsible for keeping her son out of the water, looks at her with a desire she finds harder and harder to resist. Her granddaughters name may be an insult to tradition, but does that mean the poor girl should never feel her grandmothers love or know her story?   Graceful, haunting, and wise, The Drowning Season casts the spell of all great fairy tales. It takes daily life and transforms it into myth as we watch (Chicago Sun-Times). 

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After escaping from her scientist captors, Rat finds herself aboard a space stationWhen Rata lavender-colored, highly intelligent ratescaped from her cage and found a hiding place in a nearby crate, she had no idea shed be headed for the stars. A space station, she quickly discovers, is no place for a rat. Its hard to find food amid the humans and robots aboard the craft, and even harder to move around undetected. Meanwhile, Jeff, whose parents are scientists, is the only kid on board. Hes got no friends to play with, and his robot babysitter is constantly bossing him around. To make matters worse, all of his friends are off at summer camp back on Earth and too busy having a great time to email him. So Jeff is beyond excited when he gets an email from an anonymous pen pal. Little does he know that his new buddy doesnt live on Earthand isnt even human!

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Masterful essays by one of the most distinctive voices in broadcast journalismIn his Letter from America reports for the BBC and as the host of PBSs Masterpiece Theatre, Alistair Cooke addressed millions of people all over the world every week. The fourteen essays collected here, each of which was first delivered as a speech, showcase the wit, charm, and eloquence of Cookes voice in more intimate, but no less intimidating, settings.In exclusive forums as varied as the Mayo Clinic and a conference of British and American scholars investigating the state of the language, Cooke eagerly challenges expert opinions and delightfully skewers the pretensions of the powerful. Addressing the House of Representatives on the bicentennial of the Continental Congress, he warns against the dangers of sentimentalizing history and wryly notes that practically every man who signed the Declaration of Independence is at this moment being measured for a halo or, at worst a T-shirt. At the Royal College of Surgeons in London, he compares his listeners to armed robbers and to the disreputable half of that infamous duo Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. If I could be benevolent dictator of the United States for a year, he informs the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I should provide several million jobs for the wrecking industry.No one played the devils advocate with as much grace and good humor as did Alistair Cooke. The Patient Has the Floor is an eminently quotable testament to his extraordinary talents as a journalist, scholar, and public speaker.

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A groundbreaking fantasy novel and an irresistible ode to the joys of childhoodAn immediate sensation when it was first published one hundred fifty years ago, Alices Adventures in Wonderland revolutionized childrens literature with its delightful disregard for narrative convention and its surreal cast of characters, including the anxious White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the grinning Cheshire Cat, and the notorious Queen of Hearts. Generations of readers, writers, and artists have found enchantment and inspiration in Lewis Carrolls incredible journey of the imagination from a drowsy riverbank in England to the magical world at the bottom of a rabbit hole and back again. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Will a city girls horse dreams ever come true?For Jordan McKenzie, moving from Los Angeles to rural Michigan was a big change. In LA, she was used to giant shopping malls and classmates who came to school in makeup and heels. In North Adams, Michigan, the nearest Walmart is thirty miles away. Since Jordan is a jeans-and-sneakers kind of girl, she hoped shed fit in better hereplus, there are horses in Michigan! She has wanted one forever, but in LA they were too expensive. Draft horsesgentle giantsare her favorites, with their dependable demeanors, huge size, and muscle power. Even though all the North Adams kids have horses, Jordans busy mother barely agrees to let her coop a couple of chickens on their newly rented farm. Jordans wish may never come true.Then she meets Star Gazer, a Percheron mare, at a farm auction and makes a desperate bid to save the aging horse from the slaughterhouse. Jordan is thrilled to bring her home, but Star Gazer is lame and skittish. Can Jordans loving care nurse her back to health? And can she make Star Gazer a part of the family before her mother decides to find her a new home?

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Ten legends of heroes from the Scottish Western Isles To natives from the Western Islesthe Outer Hebridesthere is little more beautiful than the raw power of the ocean. From these islands have come myths of the raging, lonely sea, the misty moors, and the fabled people who have lived there.In Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic, Sorche Nic Leodhas recounts ten stories from different islands in the Hebrides, including one from the mythical land of Eilean-h-oige. From the baker who won the heart of a princess, to the lord who sailed to avenge an insult to his king, to the lass who saved the life of a water bull, these lovely tales show the beauty and mystery of the Scottish Western Isles.

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A Complete Visual and Inspirational Guide to Yoga Asana Assists

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The founders of Jivamukti Yoga outline the fundamental principles of the assist, and how to apply them in practice and service to others.   The benefits of both giving and receiving an assistthe extraordinary mind/body/spirit connection between yoga teacher and studentdepend on knowing what an assist is, and fully understanding the method of Jivamukti itself.   Though correctionswith teachers who fixed students mistakeshad evolved to adjustments, the world-renowned founders of the Jivamukti Yoga method recognized this still suggested that changes to ones technique were necessary. In this book, they use assist to communicate the idea of two beings interacting on various levels of consciousness to bring into focus the five central tenets of Jivamukti: Shastra (or scripture), devotion, nonviolence, music, and meditation.   From cultivating trust and patience to final relaxation and massage, this step-by-step, fully illustrated guidefeaturing dozens of asanasexplores the giving of yoga as an art, a flowing dance of body, breath, and energy between two connected beings. Whether we receive or give, an assist is an active process in the resolution of a relationship between teacher and student, a microcosm of the flowing interrelation among all people, and all species.  

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One of Sports Illustrateds Top 100 Sports Books of All Timea history of soccer that stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers (The New Yorker). The beautiful game deserves a beautiful book, and Eduardo Galeanoone of Latin Americas most acclaimed authorshas written it. From Aztec champions sacrificed to appease the gods, to the goals that were literally scored into wooden posts in Victorian England, to Spains victory in the 2010 World Cup, Soccer in Sun and Shadow is a history of the sport unlike any other. Galeano portrays the irruption of South American soccer that made the game sublime: the elegant, mischievous, joyful style based on deft dribbling, close passes, and quick changes in rhythm, perfected by poor black children who had no toy but a rag ball. He describes the superstitions that vex players, the martyrdom of referees, the exquisite misery of fans, the sad denouement of stars past their prime. Striding across the pages are players born with the balland entire nationsat their feet: Arthur Friedenreich, the son of a German immigrant and a black washerwoman, who first brought Brazilian style from the slums into the stadiums; Brazils Garrincha, whose body, warped by polio, could make the ball dance; and the Dutch great Ruud Gullit, who campaigned against apartheid on and off the pitch. And, of course, Beckenbauer, Pele, Cruyff, and Maradona, a man blessed with the hand of God and a left foot equally as divine.Soccer in Sun and Shadow traces the rise of the soccer industry and the concurrent voyage from beauty to duty: attempts to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute force, one that disdains fantasy and forfeits play for results. Eduardo Galeano, who describes himself as a beggar for good soccer, gives the worlds most popular sport all the poetry, passion, and politics it deserves.

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The moment Jessica lays eyes on the wild black-and-white paint filly, she knows it was meant to beJessicas life at Wild Hawk Ranch is happy, if a bit quiet. But everything changes when her father and brother drive the latest herd of wild young quarter horses into the pen at the family ranch. There, she spots the most beautiful black-and-while paint filly shes ever seen. She just knows . . . this is the year, and that is the horse. Her moment has comeshell finally get to join her father and brother in the family business of breaking wild horses, if only she can convince her father she is old enough.But after a difficult turn, the family has no option but to keep the ranch afloat by turning it into a dude ranch for vacationing city folk. At first, Jess is thrilled by the idea. It will be fun to have new people aroundand maybe the extra work will convince her father to give her Storm Chaser, the beautiful paint. But things get complicated when the guests begin arriving. Will Jess be able to salvage her old, happy life and save Storm Chaser from an uncertain future?

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A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teen Age: Stewart jumps at the chance to travel into space, but it turns out his mission is more dangerous than he thoughtStewart Hale is about to turn thirteen, and all he wants is to become a rocket pilot, just like his mom. But ever since she died in a crash, Stewarts dad wont hear of it. He refuses even to bring Stewart to the space museum anymore. Virtual reality videos of his hero, pilot Val Thorsten, arent enough. Worst of all, Stewart realizes hes beginning to forget some of his favorite memories of his mom, and wonders if something in the past is being hidden from him. After bumping into a grizzled old space traveler, Stewart finds his chance to escape to the moon. But in a beat-up craft with a pilot whos well past his prime, this isnt quite the adventure that Stewart had in mind. 

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This shocking expose of the CIA operation aimed at destroying the Vietcong infrastructure thoroughly conveys the hideousness of the Vietnam War (Publishers Weekly). In the darkest days of the Vietnam War, Americas Central Intelligence Agency secretly initiated a sweeping program of kidnap, torture, and assassination devised to destabilize the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, commonly known as the Viet Cong. The victims of the Phoenix Program were Vietnamese civilians, male and female, suspected of harboring information about the enemythough many on the blacklist were targeted by corrupt South Vietnamese security personnel looking to extort money or remove a rival. Between 1965 and 1972, more than eighty thousand noncombatants were neutralized, as men and women alike were subjected to extended imprisonment without trial, horrific torture, brutal rape, and in many cases execution, all under the watchful eyes of US government agencies. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with former participants and observers, Douglas Valentines startling expose blows the lid off of what was possibly the bloodiest and most inhumane covert operation in the CIAs history. The ebook edition includes The Phoenix Has Landed, a new introduction that addresses the Phoenix-style network that constitutes Americas internal security apparatus today. Residents on American soil are routinely targeted under the guise of protecting us from terrorismwhich is why, more than ever, people need to understand what Phoenix is all about.

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A "stimulating" account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews).

In the decades following the Civil War, America entered an era of unprecedented corporate expansion, with ultimate financial power in the hands of a few wealthy industrialists who exploited the system for everything it was worth. The Rockefellers, Fords, Morgans, and Vanderbilts were the "lords of creation" who, along with like-minded magnates, controlled the economic destiny of the country, unrestrained by regulations or moral imperatives. Through a combination of foresight, ingenuity, ruthlessness, and greed, America's giants of industry remolded the US economy in their own image. They established their power and authority, ensuring that theyand they alonewould control the means of production, transportation, energy, and commercecreating the conditions for the stock market collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed.


As modern society continues to be affected by wealth inequality and cycles of boom and bust, it's as important as ever to understand the origins of financial disaster, and the policies, practices, and people who bring them on. The Lords of Creation, first published when the catastrophe of the 1930s was still painfully fresh, is a fascinating story of bankers, railroad tycoons, steel magnates, speculators, scoundrels, and robber barons. It is a tale of innovation and shocking exploitationand a sobering reminder that history can indeed repeat itself.

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Frederick Lewis Allen, Gretchen Morgenson, Mark Crispin Miller

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An outrageous trio of novellas that twist the Victorian era out of shape, by a master of alternate history: Spooky, haunting, hilarious (William Gibson). Welcome to the world of steampunk, a nineteenth century outrageously reconfigured through weird science. With his magnificent trilogy, acclaimed author Paul Di Filippo demonstrates how this unique subgenre of science fiction is done to perfectionreinventing a mannered age of corsets and industrial revolution with odd technologies born of a truly twisted imagination. In Victoria, the inexplicable disappearance of the British monarch-to-be prompts a scientist to place a human-lizard hybrid clone on the throne during the search for the missing royal. But the doppelganger queen comes with a most troubling flaw: an insatiable sexual appetite. The somewhat Lovecraftian Hottentots chronicles the very unusual adventure of Swiss naturalist and confirmed bigot Louis Agassiz as his determined search for a rather grisly fetish plunges him into a world of black magic and monsters. Finally, in Walt and Emily, the hitherto secret and quite steamy love affair between Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman is revealed in all its sensuous gloryas are their subsequent interdimensional travels aboard a singular ship that transcends the boundaries of time and reality. Ingenious, hilarious, ribald, and utterly remarkable, Di Filippos The Steampunk Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind literary journey to destinations at once strangely familiar and profoundly strange.

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The Classic Study of How American Women Coped with Unwanted Pregnancy before Roe v. Wade

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This eye-opening look at the abortion process prior to the Supreme Courts landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 is now more relevant than ever, with a new introduction by the author revisiting history that is still salient half a century laterIn the years before Roe v. Wade, women seeking to end their unwanted pregnancies had limited optionsmany of them dangerous, even potentially fatal, and nearly all of them illegal. This groundbreaking work by sociologist Nancy Howell Lee, first published in 1969, takes an intimate look at the entire abortion processfrom the initial decision to terminate a pregnancy through the procedure itself and the aftermathproviding an incomparable view of what is still one of the most controversial and divisive issues in America. Based on interviews with one hundred fourteen women who had illegal abortions, Howell Lees book reveals how the abortions were procured and paid for, and looks at the lasting effects the experience had on the participants. The interviewees were open and honest about what influenced their decisions, how they conducted their search for someone to perform the procedure, and the physical and emotional aftereffects. With many state governments across America currently passing new legislation that restricts and, in many cases, effectively bans abortion, an eventual return to the pre-Roe days threatens the well-being of millions of women, making Nancy Howell Lees pioneering study more relevant than ever. It is a must-read for all those interested in reproductive rights issues.

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A profoundly funnyand comically profoundstory collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary American fictionWhen his dying psychiatrist gives him the tapes to thirty years worth of therapy sessions, what else can Michael Goldberg do but listen? It is the story of his life, after allnever mind the fact that its narrated by a younger version of himself who has no idea whats going to happen next.Besides, as a man of letters best known for My Mother Is Not Living, the story that earned him a reputation as the Jewish writer who hated his mother more than any other Jewish writer, Michael has never been especially concerned with the niceties of literary convention. What he really wants, what hes been looking for from New York to Hollywood and back againfrom doomed high school romances to a late marriage begun in sin and overshadowed by tragedy, from boyhood days playing stickball in the streets of Queens to middle-aged afternoons behind a desk at the activist organization Jewish Punchers, sorting masses of data into one of two files: Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jewsare answers. To lifes great mysteries, sure, but mainly to the one question that always seems to be waiting for him, wherever he goes: How did I end up here?What Michael discovers in his therapists tapes, and what David Evanier so masterfully portrays in this hilarious and heartbreaking collection, is a life that is no less inevitable for being unplanned, and no less extraordinary for being average.

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Signature David Evaniera story collection so wickedly funny and painfully honest you wont know whether to laugh, cry, or curl up in a ball and moan with delightNew York writer Bruce Orav is crumbling. Every time his father speaksI thought there was a chance youd have a bestseller sometime. I guess thats dead, huh?Bruce loses another piece of himself. The same thing happens at the Jewish philanthropic organization where he earns a steady, if not exactly generous, paycheck and is regularly subjected to the musings of Luther, his cynical coworker: My experience has always been that kids are cannibals and killers. Not even the weekly volunteer visits he and his wife, Susan, make to an elderly Jewish womans home give Bruce the chance to stitch himself back together againevery trip is marred by another wildly inappropriate and combative scene between the quarrelsome eighty-four-year-old and her African American caretakers.With nowhere safe to turn, what is Bruce to do? His therapist wants him to join a dating club, but there is only one real answer: Keep living, because the futurefingers crossedis almost guaranteed to be better than the past. And, just as important, keep laughing. Thankfully, David Evanier is here to make the laughter part as easy as reading The One-Star Jew.

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The secret is out and the hunt is onIn the nonstop sequel to Jimmy Coates: Assassin, eleven-year-old Jimmy is in hiding from NJ7, the British intelligence agency that designed and programmed him to be a superassassin. The agency has plans for Jimmybut, regardless of his programming, hes determined not to become a killer.If he wont cooperate, he has to run. But escaping just got hardertheres another teenage assassin out to find him. This boy is just like Jimmy, except he plans to fulfill his mission to kill.