Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night? To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol, desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most urgently free, when high meets low, when tongues wag, when wallets loosen, when uptown, downtown, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, male, and female so often chance upon one another. Night is when we are more likely to carouse, fornicate, fall in love, murder,...

Every travel guidebook tells you where to travel, where to stay, and what to see. All good info. But "how to" travel has largely been ignored.So I've made my share of mistakes, so you don't have to.Asia Unpacked can ensure that your time in Asia meets all your expectations.

They are like us but they are differentnot in an incompatible way, but in ways that defy the assumptions humans in most world cultures take for granted.Their village technology and culture are almost aboriginal, but their language is intricate and efficient.The people of the planet Nenmar, on the other side of the galaxy from Earth, possess what many humans strive for:a deep self-assurance and corresponding acceptance of others.The offspring of a Nenmaran mother and human father, t...

A funny and provocative cultural history of class, manners, and the decline of civilityIn his smart and thought provoking new book, literary/social critic Mark Caldwell gives us a history of the demise of manners and charts the progress of an epidemic of rudeness in America. The breakdown of civility has in recent years become a national obsession, and our modern climate of boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette watchdogs, like Miss Manners and Martha Stewar...

PRAISE For the NEW EDITION of NEVER DIE TWICE ..."This really did have everything I look for in a good thriller: action, danger, characters I love, and a tangled web of suspense artfully woven by the author!”“Impossible not to think of a great James Bond movie!”THE VIPER SERIES introduces NATALIE NICKS the Pentagon’s new super spy.In Never Die Twice, Mark Caldwell Jones introduces Natalie Nicks, the bionic ...

PRAISE for VIPER FATALIS ..."This is the second book in the series and just as good if not better than the first...another series that I don’t ever want to finish! Right up my street, could not put it down!”THE VIPER SERIES introduces NATALIE NICKS the Pentagon’s new super spy. Equipped with cutting-edge cybernetics, Viper works alongside an elite team of investigators called Reaper Force to combat a deadly terrorist group with a m...

Praise For MOONBASE ROGUE ..."Another series that I don’t ever want to finish! Right up my street, could not put it down! 5 stars!”“A cinematic spy thriller you can't put down!”“Impossible not to think of a great James Bond movie!”THE VIPER SERIES introduces NATALIE NICKS the Pentagon’s new super spy.In Moonbase Rogue, Mark Caldwell Jones continues the story of Natalie Nicks, the bionic super soldier known as Viper. Equipped with cutting-edge cyberne...

Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted.Flapper is an inside look at the 1920s. With tales of Coco ...

In the summer of 1948, E.B. White sat in a New York City hotel room and, sweltering in the heat, wrote a remarkable pristine essay, Here is New York. Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, the author’s stroll around Manhattan—with the reader arm-in-arm—remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. Here is New York has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city. The ...

Full of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils, scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary resonance: how a great natural wonder created both the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the worst pollution on the continent.

New from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly!Laura Shumway couldn’t say why she’d agreed to go on the class reunion trip to Italy. Maybe it was to take stock of her life, or maybe it was just to catch up with old friends, take in the sights, and relax in the beautiful Tuscan countryside. Either way, she knew she’d discover a lot on the trip, about both herself and her former classmates. What she didn’t expect to discover was the dead body of esteemed professo...

In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a glittering, bygone age.Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior.Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite det...