A tale of taut suspense from 'the best writer in crime fiction today' [USA Today]Harry Arno runs a South Miami Beach gambling operation. To protect his position, he was forced...

Author: Danielle Steel An abandoned safe-box in a New York City bank is opened to reveal a treasure trove - a bundle of old letters, photographs and a collection of...

Peter P WakkerProspect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity provides the first comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated...

Duncan Hamilton January 1, 2008 by HarperPerennial

Miriyam Glazer In this study of the psalms of the Jewish liturgy, Rabbi Miriyam Glazer brings these well-known psalms alive. She focuses on each psalm's pathos, power, richness of imagery,...

Jonathan StroudNathaniel 17 treats Bartimaeus worse than ever. The long-suffering djinni is weak from too much time in this world, near the end of his patience. Rebel Kitty 18 hides,...

Bryan Burrough January 1, 2009 by PENGUIN

JJ Howard Sam's parents run a catering company, which doesn't leave them much time for Sam. Though she has begged for a dog, her parents say they are just too...

Matti Friedman“Matti Friedman’s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr’s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative,...

Matti Friedman “A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.” — The Wall Street...

Alfie KohnPunished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other BribesThe basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be...

Sheila Heti Heartbreaking, exciting, profound: a short epic that reimagines what the novel can doThe world is failing to remain a world. It is coming apart. The ice cubes are...