After falling in love with an underage girl and stirring the wrath of her older sister, New York native Miles Heller flees to Brooklyn and shacks up with a group of artists squatting in the borough's Sunset Park neighborhood.

A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war and peace, this is it."--John Gray, New Statesman "It is tragic that Robert D. Kaplan's luminous The Tragic Mind is so urgently needed."--George F. Will Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international politics in Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, that the essence of geopolitics is tragedy. In The Tragic Mind , he employs the works of ancient Greek dramatists, Shakespeare, German philosophers, and the modern classics to explore the central subjects of international politics: order, disorder, rebellion, ambition, loyalty to family and state, violence, and the mistakes of power. The great dilemmas of international politics, he argues, are not posed by good versus evil--a clear and easy choice--but by contests of good versus good, where the choices are often searing, incompatible, and fraught with consequences. A deeply learned and deeply felt meditation on the importance of lived experience in conducting international relations, this is a book for everyone who wants a profound understanding of the tragic politics of our time.

You hold in your hand the key to a shadow world of shivers and screams. Take a step away from the safe, comfortable world you know. Unlock the door to terror. There's always room for one more in . . . The Nightmare Room.

Are you ready to leave your safe, comfortable world to enter a place one step beyond reality? Do you think you're brave enough to step into The Nightmare Room? Then check out this new tale of terror from the master of horror, R.L. Stine. Don't say we didn't warn you ...That's Alex Smith. He's heading home to check out his journal. Alex's journal is very special. Every night, a new entry appears in the book that tells Alex what's going to happen in the future. Alex thinks the diary entries are the key to popularity and great grades. But what he doesn't know is that they are the key to ... "The Nightmare Room".

No girl in her right mind would say no to a date with Bobby Newkirk. Not with those great looks, that easy charm, and the awesome way he plays the guitar. Of course, some people think he’s just a bit conceited. But when it comes to breaking hearts, that hasn’t slowed Bobby down one bit. At least, not until the beautiful Wade twins move to Shadyside. And Bobby brags to his friends that they’ll both fall for him. And they do. Too bad for Bobby the twins never learned to share. One of them is jealous, murderously jealous. Is it quiet, shy Bree? Or bold, sexy Samantha? Bobby had better figure it out...or his double fun will turn to double terror.

Jamie Kolker is a huge fan of Hecula the He-Beast, a comic book monster, until one day he gets his hands on the artist's program, which somehow releases the monster into the real world.

Adam Malfitano still has nightmares about the night his girlfriend, Mitzi, died. He sees the blood. He sees her in the water. He is a lifeguard, and he can't save her. He wakes up screaming. Even worse, he has begun to see Mitzi while he is awake. He knows it is impossible, but she looks so real. What does she want from him?

Heidi lives with her eccentric uncle Dr. Jekyll. The locals call him a mad scientist. Heidi thinks they're crazy--until she catches her uncle drinking a strange concoction and terrifying animal sounds rip through the night.

Your parents are crazy! Nobody would want to live in creepy Swamp House - it'sfalling to bits and (guess what?) it'sin the middle of a swamp...Still, now you're here, maybe you should explore. Not the basement though - it stinks. We said not the basement... Fine be like that. Well, there'san old book over there. A secret diary maybe? Or that could be a telescope. We'll let you into a secret - whichever you pick up, you're going to be out in that swamp before long - with the Strangler Vines...and the man-eating plants...and the alligators...

Ava and Courtney get angry at Steven, whose magic tricks always happen at their expense, and trick him into drinking a mixture of chemicals, but the drink has surprising effects and Steven finds out how challenging it is to navigate his house when he

Beak-a-boo, it sees you! Cooper Klavan and his sister Anna are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not wan

You are a member of the GI Joe Team! Are you clever enough to prevent Cobra from disrupting top-secret talks between the U.S. President and China's Premier?

Iris predicts that Wade's brother will encounter a terrible accident.

Lizzie McVay realizes that someone is murdering the five prom queen condidates one by one and she may be the next on the list.

A historical fantasy re-creates the legend of the Sumerian demi-god and king Gilgamesh, slayer of monsters and master of unsurpassed treasures, who searches for the key to immortality. Reprint.

Presents convenience foods that can be prepared in the slow cooker in a cookbook containing more than 120 recipes for soups and stews, beans and chili, one-pot meals, five-ingredient dishes, meat, desserts, and party foods.

"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate, Kitty Saginor Binder. When Kitty's daughter finds her life is in danger, she calls Lotty, who, in turn, summons V.I. to help. The daughter's troubles turn out to be just the tip of an iceberg of lies, secrets, and silence, whose origins go back to the mad competition among America, Germany, Japan and England to develop the first atomic bomb. The secrets are old, but the people who continue to guard them today will not let go of them without a fight."--