Book Preview I. Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. It was a very old house—it had an attic under the roof and a cellar under the ground and an overgrown garden with huge old trees in it. Coraline’s family didn’t own all of the house—it was too big … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER ONE WHICH IS MOSTLY ABOUT NAMES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a tune. That was how the world was made, how the void was divided, how the lands and the stars and the … Read more
Book Preview An Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition I don’t know what it’s like to read this book. I only know what it was like to live the writing of it. I moved to America in 1992. Something started, in the back of my head. There were unrelated ideas that I knew were … Read more
Book Preview American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn’t sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he’s … Read more
Book Preview Jim Gaffigan wrote a book? Isn’t he the Hot Pocket guy? I bet he regrets doing that joke. Hooooot Poooockets! I guess that’s funny to some people. Why would he write a book? Why would they let him write a book? He doesn’t even seem like he’s read a book before. Well, maybe … Read more
Book Preview The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy During the Cold War The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War The United States and the … Read more
Book Preview People disappear all the time. Ask any policeman. Better yet, ask a journalist. Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists. Young girls run away from home. Young children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives reach the end of their tether and take the grocery money and a taxi to the station. … Read more
Book Preview DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series. She says that the Outlander series started by accident: ‘I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do … Read more
Book Preview Chronology of the Novels: When to Read What? The Lord John novellas and novels1 are sequential, but are built to stand alone; you don’t need to read them in order. In terms of their relationship to the larger Outlander novels: These books are part of the overall series, but are focused for the … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments The author would like to thank all the kind people who have given me information and help in the course of this novel, particularly— …Mr. Richard Jacobs, Krefeld local historian, and his wife Monika, who walked the battlefield at Krefeld (“Crefeld” is the older, eighteenth-century spelling) and the Landwehr with me, explaining … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments Interviewers are always asking me how many research assistants I employ. The answer is “None.” I do all my own research—because I simply wouldn’t have any idea what to tell an assistant to go look for! However, the answer also is “Hundreds!”—because so many nice people not only answer my random inquiries … Read more
Book Preview Occupied Paris, the tenth day of March, 1941. At eight-twenty in the evening, the man known to his Resistance cell as Mathieu waited in a doorway where he could watch the entry of the Métro station on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. He tried to look beyond the entry, at the tree-lined boulevard, but there … Read more
Book Preview :OPYRIGHT, 1930, 1939, BY HENRY HOLT & CO., INC COP YRIG HT, 1936, 1942, BY ROBERT FROST COPYR IG HT, 1946, B Y RANDOM HOUSE, INC Random House is THE PUBLISHER OF THE MODERN LIBRARY BENNETT A. CERF • DONALD S. KLOPFER • ROBERT K. HAAS Manufactured m the United States of America … Read more
Book Preview Milton Friedman is a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Paul Snowden Russell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago. In 1976 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. With his wife, Rose D. Friedman, he wrote the best-selling book, Free to … Read more
Book Preview Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told … Read more
Book Preview Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told … Read more
Book Preview VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 … Read more
Book Preview Information about External Hyperlinks in this ebook Please note that footnotes in this ebook may contain hyperlinks to external websites as part of bibliographic citations. These hyperlinks have not been activated by the publisher, who cannot verify the accuracy of these links beyond the date of publication. Information about External Hyperlinks in this … Read more