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The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"-not to mention an official Genius-a trade paperback original and his first nonfiction collection ever.George Saunders's firs... -
The 34th Rule - Armin Shimerman; David R. Georg
SUMMARY: For once, business is going well for Quark, not that anyone on "Deep Space Nine(TM)" truly appreciates his genius for finding profit in the most unlikely of circumstances.... -
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
SUMMARY: Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man ... -
Skylark - Dezso Kosztolanyi; Peter Esterh
Series Copy:"Half a continent's worth of forgotten genius."The GuardianThe new Central European Classics series was born some ten years ago in the di... -
Shock Wave - Clive Cussler
SUMMARY: A Mysterious Plague in the Antarctic...A Diamond Empire Run by an Evil Genius...A Devastating New Technology...NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is investigating the baffling deaths o... -
Polar Shift - Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos
SUMMARY: When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a ... -
Palm Sunday_ An Autobiographica - Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marr... -
Pale Fire_ A Novel - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shade's self-styled Boswe... -
Millionaire - Janet Gleeson
On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Al... -
How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
FromIn this collection, Eggers (_Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_) is obviously straddling the line between being a writer—and a very talented one at that—and being the spo...