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The Playground was part of the first hardcover edition of Ray Bradbury's legendary work Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953. In the story, Charles Underhill is a widower who will do anything to protect his young son Jim from the horrors of the playground - a playground which he and the boy pass by daily and the tumult of which, the activity, brings back to Charles the anguish of his own childhood.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation.

The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has ballooned in size, complexity, and risk. Once dominated by four state-owned banks, the nation's financial system is a tangle of shadow banking entities...

In the 1970s, the behavioral psychologist Herbert S. Terrace led a remarkable experiment to see if a chimpanzee could be taught to use language. A young ape, named “Nim Chimpsky” in a nod to the linguist whose theories Terrace challenged, was raised by a family in New York and instructed in American Sign Language. Initially, Terrace thought that Nim could create sentences but later discovered that Nim’s teachers inadvertently cued his signing. Terrace concluded that Project Nim failed - not because Nim couldn’t create sentences but because he couldn’t even learn words.

In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears.

Daisy Gibson thinks she knows exactly what Kevin Miller is: her childhood rival, professional troublemaker, and the one person guaranteed to irritate her at the worst possible moment. Then he appears outside her Vancouver apartment after midnight, hears the truth about her broken engagement, sends her money without hesitation, and asks a question no rival should ask: has she ever thought about marrying him instead? Their quick contract marriage is supposed to be practical, a shield against Daisy’s controlling father, a scandalous answer to family pressure, and nothing more.

Reya Carter has spent years chasing affection, mistaking attention for intimacy and longing for connection. But when the life she’s built begins to unravel, she finds herself forced to confront a painful question: What if the thing she’s been searching for has been destroying her all along? Told in reverse chronology, The Truth Within Me begins at the end and works backward through secrets, heartbreak, obsession, and self-deception, revealing how one woman lost herself, and what it takes to find her way back. As past and present collide, every chapter uncovers another piece of the truth.

Dr. Oliver Sacks argues the migraine cannot be understood simply as an illness, but must be viewed as a complex condition with a unique role to play in each individual's life.

Awakenings - which inspired the major motion picture - is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and their extraordinary transformations.

Journey into the heart of Shiloh with Tanya Davis. Shiloh is a small vibrant African American community in Asheville, North Carolina. Threads is a multifaceted compilation capturing the essence of Shiloh through history, heartfelt stories, poems, prose, and essays. It offers fragmented memories...

Charlie can’t wait for the day his dog, Ace, can finally show off his skills helping move cows on the ranch! A border collie born and bred to herd cattle, Ace should be a natural when it comes to gathering the cows. But there is just one problem no matter how hard he tries, Ace can’t seem to get it right. Will Charlie find a place for Ace to shine on the ranch? Set against the wide-open beauty of Grandma and Grandpa’s working cattle ranch, A Place for Ace is a heartfelt story of perseverance, friendship, and finding where you belong.

Some lights appear only when the darkness calls them forward. For twelve-year-old Ethan Elias, life should be simple: Saturday mornings at the Tahuya trails, the smell of two-stroke exhaust, and trying to keep his YZ125 upright while chasing his legendary father and stubborn grandfather through the Washington woods. But the Elias family has never been simple.

The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen. The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the...

Who Cuts the Barber's Hair? You're the one everyone calls. The dependable one. The strong one. The one who always shows up. But when you need help… who shows up for you? In The Cost of Being the Reliable One, Kerwin Boxill uncovers the hidden emotional and financial toll of always being the helper, the fixer, the lender, and the one who "understands." What starts as kindness slowly turns into exhaustion. What feels like loyalty turns into one-sided relationships. And what looks like strength becomes silent self-neglect.

A scathing memoir by Patti Davis, first-born child of Nancy and Ronald Reagan. The daughter of two actors, Nancy Davis and Ronald Reagan, Patti Davis grew up in the world of entertainment and politics. Her mother abandoned a career in film and television as her husband transitioned from the...

He thought the desert would test his limits. He never expected to be claimed. When reckless explorer Mason and his secret lover Ashir unearth a lost ruin beneath the blazing dunes, they awaken something ancient and hungry—a colossal, golden-armored beetle known as the Sand Scourge. Captured in the creature’s shimmering web, Mason and Ashir are forced to submit, worship, and surrender to their monstrous captor’s every demand. Bathed in pheromones, entangled in sticky gold, and watched by a hive of eager captives, the two men are pushed to their breaking point and beyond.

Breath returns slowly — and when it does, everything changes. In this intimate memoir, Todd Michael revisits the moments that forced him to stop running, face his past, and rebuild his life from the inside out. When the Breath Came Back is a story of awakening, resilience, and the quiet...

Men are returning to church, but what kind of church will they find? For decades now, Christian men have been told that their strength is a problem, their ambition a sin, and power is dangerous to wield. Instead, they are offered a feminized faith which prizes inaction and passivity. Niceness has become the highest virtue. Offensive Christianity: Restoring the Strength of Men in a Feminized Age is a call to action for men who refuse to submit to a world that despises them. Chase Davis argues that modern Christianity has reduced manhood into a set of secular ideals divorced from reality.

Pulling my husband’s favorite lasagna from the oven, I see he’s glued to his phone again. He shifts his chair, hiding his screen from my view. Without looking up, he asks about work and I quickly come up with a story about my day. Of course, I’m lying. I never went to work. And when I hear the ping of my email, fear and guilt make my face flush pink.

He’s dangerously sexy. My brother’s billionaire best friend. And the last man I should ever fall for. After being burned before, I don’t trust easily. Especially men who seem too good to be true. But when a stranger with a wicked smirk steps in to protect me from a seemingly random creep...