In this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He's stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre,...
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combines hilarity and an...
When the enormous oil company AG Striker requests details of an oil reserve just off of Equatorial Guinea's coast, they discover a literal ocean of oil, bigger than the entire Saudi Arabian field. A...
Denis Johnson's now classic story collection chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These are...
The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it's downright deadly. Elena Michaels, the Pack's chief enforcer, knows all...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Moneyball and Liar’s Poker comes the story of a young man’s rise to football stardom. The young man at the center of this...
Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species
Sean B. Carroll
Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths...
