Step back in time to Nazareth, where the sands of history meet the humour of adolescence in an unforgettable retelling of the early life of Jesus. Before the world knew him as the Messiah, he was a teenager navigating the awkwardness of first dates, the chaos of goat races, and the challenges of discovering supernatural abilities he didn’t quite understand. These untold stories offer a rare glimpse into a young man balancing divine potential with the everyday antics of friendship, mischief...

“A well-told, powerful story. Backderf is quite skilled in using comics to tell this tale of a truly weird and sinister 1970s adolescent world.” —R. CrumbNATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a BEST OF 2012 by Time, The Village Voice, A.V. Club, comiXology, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, MTV Geek, and more!“ASTOUNDING.” —Lev Grossman, TimeYou only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer—the most notorious serial killer since Jack the Ripper—...

**"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t have to end there."— Dwight Garner, New York Times27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and en...

This handy guide is a useful and entertaining aid to enrich your French. It contains 500 commonly used expressions, complete with definitions, example sentences and, in some cases, notes about the origin of the phrase.At the end of the book, you will also find some of these expressions classified by relevant theme (love, ambition, social life, imagery and professions) and around fifty fill-in-the-blank sentences for you to practice using them.This guide aims to teach you how ...

T'ai Chi Grandmaster Kuo Yun San leaves mainland China for what he thinks is the last time, creating a new life for himself,opening a T'ai Chi school in New York City and reconnecting with his Asian American family in Chinatown. He was once rumored to have been the bodyguard of Madame Chiang Kai Shek. Nevertheless, the city of New York in the 1960's is a very different place from the one he visited in past decades and he's surprised by the level of social inrest and violence he enc...

**"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t have to end there."— Dwight Garner, New York Times27 personal histories of immigrant restaurant workers in New York City whose stories of persistence, hope, and en...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and...

**"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two CitiesChief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at a luxurious resort near Lake Tai, a week where he can relax, and recover, undisturbed by outside demands or disruptions. Unfortunately, the once beautiful Lake Tai, renowned for its...

“Raw, powerful and disturbing—a head-spinning take on Mr. Tyson's life.”—Wall Street JournalPhilosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon—Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew up to become one of the most ferocious boxers of all time—and the youngest heavyweight champion ever. But his brill...

Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she’s content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress—until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang.Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-ying can barely imagine, yet alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life.Yet Bai Huang’s position means that all she could ever be to him is his concubine—wil...

When the murder of a woman is reported to the Shanghai police while Inspector Chen is on vacation, Sergeant Yu is forced to take charge of the investigation. The victim, Yin Lige, a novelist known for her banned book, has been found dead in her tiny, humble room off the stairwell of a converted multi-family house. It seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, for the building is kept locked at night. But there is no apparent motive. Sergeant Yu tries to unravel the reclusiv...

The New York Times –bestselling true crime story of the notorious American serial killer.They smelled the foul odors. They heard the power saw buzzing in the dead of night but neighbors never imagined the horrors happening right next door.Tenants of the Oxford Apartments would never forget the hot sultry night of July 22, 1991. A panic-stricken young man—a pair of handcuffs still dangling from his wrists—ran out o...