 | Emotionally wrung-out from her divorce, the painful ending of a subsequent love affair, and a general, long-standing feeling of malaise, novelist and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert decides to recharge herself through a year’s worth of travel, believing... |
 | Keeping in mind that most of the technology we take for granted today was unthinkable a century ago, renowned astrophysicist Michio Kaku gazes into his scientific crystal ball to assess the possibilities for some of tomorrow's most significant... |
 | When a deep-sea biomedical station conducting research on an elusive jellyfish (the Blue Medusa) becomes itself impossible to find--the station just disappears--and a spherical submersible gets attacked, the leader of the National Underwater Marine... |
 | John Steinbeck chronicles his attempts, as he travels from Long Island to California and back, to define what it is to be American. In the end, he concedes failure: it is impossible to generalize about his complicated homeland. However, his... |
 | In this novel by a bestselling author of women's fiction, a Manhattan woman in a cold, repressive marriage reassesses her priorities after she survives a Maine boating accident that kills nine others. Having been saved from death, Julia is now hungry... |
 | Clive Cussler continues his bestselling Oregon Files series with PLAGUE SHIP. Captain Juan Cabrillo must head off a terrorist organization that is posing as a humanitarian group. The group is planning a massive attack using a centuries old virus... |
 | INTO THE WILD developed out of an article Jon Krakauer wrote for Outside magazine. Emory University honors graduate Christopher Johnson McCandless--"Alexander Supertramp"--took off after college in rebellion against authority and his privileged... |
 | When a deep-sea biomedical station conducting research on an elusive jellyfish (the Blue Medusa) becomes itself impossible to find--the station just disappears--and a spherical submersible gets attacked, the leader of the National Underwater Marine... |
 | Researchers at a marine biology lab in Connecticut discover a pregnant great white shark. They soon learn, though, that science has created a monster far more dangerous that lurks in the same waters. |
 | The Pan Am Clipper departs on its last flight from war torn Europe for neutral America with the continent's wealthy and privileged aboard. Before the flight and the night are over, theft, betrayal, passion, and intrigue will all rear their ugly... |