-Titulo Original : Year One: Chronicles Of The One, Book 1 (Chronicles Of The One, 1)-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (November 2018)A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts Year One is an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magick, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives…It began on New Year’s Eve.The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river or in the ones you know and love the most. As word spreads that neither the immune nor the gifted are safe from the authorities who patrol the ravaged streets, and with nothing left to count on but each other, Lana and Max make their way out of a wrecked New York City. At the same time, other travelers are heading west too, into a new frontier. Chuck, a tech genius trying to hack his way through a world gone offline. Arlys, a journalist who has lost her audience but uses pen and paper to record the truth. Fred, her young colleague, possessed of burgeoning abilities and an optimism that seems out of place in this bleak landscape. And Rachel and Jonah, a resourceful doctor and a paramedic who fend off despair with their determination to keep a young mother and three infants in their care alive.In a world of survivors where every stranger encountered could be either a savage or a savior, none of them knows exactly where they are heading, or why. But a purpose awaits them that will shape their lives and the lives of all those who remain.The end has come. The beginning comes next. Review “Electric and ground-breaking…A fast-paced, mesmerizing, and thought-provoking novel that will no doubt add to Roberts legions of fans.” --Kirkus, Starred Review“Fascinating characters and a well-built dystopia combine with a riveting plot that will attract a whole new group of readers. --Library Journal, Starred Review“What Roberts has done, with her radical departure, is ensure that she will find new fans among readers attracted to apocalyptic sf and speculative fiction.” --BooklistA match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King’s The Stand.” --New York Times Book Review“You’ll be hooked.” --People MagazineRoberts knows exactly how to spellbind an audience.” --The Washington Post“Nora Roberts has turned her pen to apocalyptic fiction. And, oh boy, she really delivered...fast-paced and energetic.” --Bustle“The queen of the best-seller list is kicking off a new trilogy, a foray into dystopian fantasy that may earn the novelist a few gazillion more fans.” -- AARP.org, Best Books of Winter 2018 Recommended as one of four books students should read over winter break by The Carolinian, UNC Greensboro About the Author NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 230 novels, including Legacy, The Awakening, Hideaway, Under Currents, The Chronicles of The One trilogy, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print...

-Titulo Original : Feeding The Frasers: Family Favorite Recipes Made To Feed The Five-Time CrossFit Games Champion, Mat Fraser-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Based on Sammy Monizs popular page, Feeding the Frasers is a book that any CrossFit aficionado or just someone curious about how to cook with whole foods without sacrificing the world will want to get their hands on.Filled with 100 terrific recipes of high quality delicious food that promote balance, togetherness, indulgence, and athletic recovery. Sammy Moniz is well known in the CrossFit community as an activist, and she is also the wife of five time champion Mat Fraser, the winningest athlete in CrossFit history and one of the most beloved. This is her cookbook where she shares the secrets behind feeding the greatest champion of the sport. Review It’s so exciting that Sammy Moniz is now sharing her recipes with the world through her cookbook Feeding the Frasers. These recipes have brought her family & friends together to share memories and laughs over a table of food. When you’re looking for that perfect family gathering recipe, Sammy is the person to turn to. Her passion for cooking and love for family is the secret to what makes her cooking so incredibly yummy. Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, 5-Time Fittest Woman on Earth, Olympian, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.Before it was Feeding The Frasers, it was just Sammy cooking for her favorite people. I feel extremely lucky to have been among the friends whose taste buds benefited from those early days of experimenting. But while Sammy’s culinary expertise is what started this project, it’s her gift for bringing people together that makes her work so resonant. A human ray of sunshine, Sammy has a way of making every table whether it’s her own dining room table in Vermont or a coffee table in a CrossFit Games hotel room feel like home. This book, a labor of love from an impossibly generous soul, is the next best thing to sitting around Sammy’s table.” Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir, 2-Time CrossFit Games Champion and author of Dottir Sammy changed my palate. I thought I was a good cook, until I had the luxury of tasting her food for 3 straight weeks, I realized I suck.” Kip Moore, American country music singer and songwriter About the Author Sammy Moniz is a self-taught home cook, author, and the wife of 5-time CrossFit champion Mat Fraser. She began cooking as a way to feed her desire to learn and be creative, and she loves how food brings people together. Feeding the Frasers is her first cookbook...

-Titulo Original : What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning And Literacy. Second Edition: Revised And Updated Edition-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: James Paul Gee begins his classic book with I want to talk about video games--yes, even violent video games--and say some positive things about them. With this simple but explosive statement, one of Americas most well-respected educators looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. In this revised edition, new games like World of WarCraft and Half Life 2 are evaluated and theories of cognitive development are expanded. Gee looks at major cognitive activities including how individuals develop a sense of identity, how we grasp meaning, how we evaluate and follow a command, pick a role model, and perceive the world. Review “Gee astutely points out that for video game makers, unlike schools, failing to engage children is not an option.” Terrence Hackett, The Chicago Tribune“These games succeed because, according to Gee, they gradually present information that is actually needed to perform deeds.” Norman A. Lockman, USA Today“James Paul Gees What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy has been a transformative work. Gee might be described as the Johnny Appleseed of the serious games movement, planting seeds that are springing new growth everywhere we look. More than anyone else, he has forced educators, parents, policy makers, journalists, and foundations to question their assumptions and transform their practices. Gee combines the best contemporary scholarship in the learning scientists with a gamers understanding of what is engaging about this emerging medium.” Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide About the Author James Paul Gee has been featured in a variety of publications including Redbook, Child, Teacher, USA Today, Education Week, The Chicago Tribune, and more. He was formerly the Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. He is a founder of the Center for Games and Impact at ASU which orchestrated a national conversation on games and learning for the White House Office of Science and Technology. Described by The Chronicle of Higher Education as a serious scholar who is taking a lead in an emerging field, he is the author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy...

-Titulo Original : Beyond Boundaries The New Neuroscience Of Connecting Brains With Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.Beyond Boundaries draws on Nicoleliss ground-breaking research with monkeys that he taught to control the movements of a robot located halfway around the globe by using brain signals alone. Nicoleliss work with primates has uncovered a new method for capturing brain function by recording rich neuronal symphonies rather than the activity of single neurons. His lab is now paving the way for a new treatment for Parkinsons, silk-thin exoskeletons to grant mobility to the paralyzed, and breathtaking leaps in space exploration, global communication, manufacturing, and more. Beyond Boundaries promises to reshape our concept of the technological future, to a world filled with promise and hope. Review “Miguel Nicolelis has produced a delightful and scientifically important work by combining stories of his life with reflections on the big questions in neuroscience. The progress he and his co-workers have made toward a future where humans can use brain activity to directly control computers and mechanical devices to restore lost motor and communication functions is both awe-inspiring and filled with hope.” Jon Kaas, Distinguished Centennial Professor, Vanderbilt University and member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences“In this wonderfully vivid and fascinating book, Miguel Nicolelis describes a new view of the human brain, and how interfacing it to machines will have important implications for rehabilitation medicine and beyond.” Peter Agre, M.D., 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and University Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute“Here is the seminal guide to the latest in brain-machine interfaces and the incredible potential they hold to improve the human condition. From the first moment I heard about Miguels ground-breaking work in the hallways of Duke University, I knew he was on to something special. At once scientifically rich and readily accessible, it inspires both curiosity and hope from one of the fields most important thinkers.” Bill Maris, Managing Partner, Google“Beyond Boundaries is an absolute joy to read. Professor Miguel Nicolelis has provided a provocative, thoughtful and novel view of how this amazing machine called our brain processes and acts on information about our world. Always a scientist and often a poet, Nicolelis writes in an informative and engaging style that is accessible to specialist and layman alike. I highly recommend this wonderful book.” Thomas J. Carew, Bren Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, and former president of the Society of Neuroscience“Nicolelis is a leader in the rapidly developing field that allows brains and machines to work closely together. . .will fascinate neuroscience buffs.” Publishers Weekly About the Author Miguel Nicolelis, M.D. Ph.D., is the Anne W. Deane Professor of Neuroscience at Duke University and founder of Dukes Center for Neuroengineering. He is the author of Beyond Boundaries. His award-winning research has been published in Nature, Science, and other leading scientific journals, as well as in Scientific American, which named him one of the twenty most influential scientists in the world. A member of the French and Brazilian academies of sciences, he lives in North Carolina...

-Titulo Original : On Intelligence: How A New Understanding Of The Brain Will Lead To The Creation Of Truly Intelligent Machines-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machinesJeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity. Review “On Intelligence will have a big impact; everyone should read it. In the same way that Erwin Schrodingers 1943 classic What is Life? made how molecules store genetic information then the big problem for biology, On Intelligence lays out the framework for understanding the brain.” James D. Watson, president, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Nobel laureate in Physiology“Brilliant and embued with startling clarity. On Intelligence is the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation.” Malcolm Young, neurobiologist and provost, University of Newcastle“Read this book. Burn all the others. It is original, inventive, and thoughtful, from one of the worlds foremost thinkers. Jeff Hawkins will change the way the world thinks about intelligence and the prospect of intelligent machines.” John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers About the Author Jeff Hawkins, co-author of On Intelligence, is one of the most successful and highly regarded computer architects and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. He founded Palm Computing and Handspring, and created the Redwood Neuroscience Institute to promote research on memory and cognition. Also a member of the scientific board of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, he lives in northern California. Sandra Blakeslee has been writing about science and medicine for The New York Times for more than thirty years and is the co-author of Phantoms in the Brain by V. S. Ramachandran and of Judith Wallersteins bestselling books on psychology and marriage. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. On Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee St. Martins Press Copyright ©2005 Jeff Hawkins All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-8050-7853-4 Excerpt From On Intelligence: Let me show why computing is not intelligence. Consider the task of catching a ball. Someone throws a ball to you, you see it traveling towards you, and in less than a second you snatch it out of the air. This doesnt seem too difficult-until you try to program a robot arm to do the same. As many a graduate student has found out the hard way, it seems nearly impossible. When engineers or computer scientists try to solve this problem, they first try to calculate the flight of the ball to determine where it will be when it reaches the arm. This calculation requires solving a set of equations of the type you learn in high school physics. Nex...

-Titulo Original : Mientras Espera -Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Guia para el embarazo y el partoTotalmente revisado y actualizado-- El libro del que dependen millones de mujeres y el personal de salud para estar al tanto del embarazo y el parto.¡Mas de 3 millones de ejemplares vendidos!Escrita por un obstetra y una madre: La informacion que usted necesita acerca del embarazo y el nacimiento de su bebe.Esta edicion totalmente revisada ofrece la informacion mas reciente que usted debe saber acerca del embarazo y la atencion prenatal, incluye:* como cooperar con el personal de salud en cada etapa del embarazo y el parto* signos de advertencia-- que debe observar* ejercicios utiles para mantenerse en forma, preparada para el parto* sugerencias praticas para mantenerse comoda a medida que su cuerpo cambia durante el embarazo* recomendaciones faciles de seguir para alimentarse debidamente* preguntas que usted puede formular, para ayudarle a lograr un embarazo y parto satisfactorio* explicacion de terminos y procedimientos medicos* su cuidado personal despues del nacimiento del bebe* las investigaciones y datos mas recientes acerca de muchos temas relacionados con el embarazo, entre ellos: la nutricion; el monitor fetal; riesgos en el trabajo y en el hogar; el alcohol, las drogas y el tabaco; la cesarea y el parto vaginal despues de cesarea; el aborto; el alivio del dolor; su enlace con el bebe; las mujeres de edad media, el exceso de peso y las adolescentes.El contenido del libro esta ordenado de una manera facil de usar, con espacio en blanco para llevar cuenta de sus visitas medicas, anotaciones, preguntas y cualquier instruccion especial para su atencion personal. From Publishers Weekly A revised and updated edition of the widely distributed Spanish-language pregnancy guide. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. About the Author George E. Verrilli, M.D., F.A.O.C.G., is Senior Attending Physician at Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck, New York, and a pioneer of family-centered childbirth practices. His books include While Waiting. Anne Marie Mueser, Ed.D., is a writer and former teacher who lives in Clinton Corners, New York...

-Titulo Original : Elegy (a Watersong Novel, 4)-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: In a frightful world of dark magic and savage beauty, two sisters are about to discover that love is the most powerful weapon of all. Dont miss Elegy, the mesmerizing final chapter of the Watersong series!An ancient curse robbed Gemma Fisher of everything that matters most her friends, her family and the guy she loves. But now that she found the scroll that binds the curse, she finally has a chance to get her old life back. She just needs to destroy the scroll but its not as easy as she hoped. Protected by ancient magic, it seems utterly indestructible. Making matters worse, Penn has grown even more obsessed with stealing Daniel for her own…and shes about to succeed. Gemmas frantic search leads her to someone who might be able to help the mysterious immortal who cursed Penn and her sisters thousands of years ago. As Gemma and her friends unravel the tragic history of the curse, they plunge deeper into a world of shocking secrets and twisted vendettas and itll take all their courage, love and the power of their friendship just to survive. Gemma has so much to fight for and shes never wanted anything more, but will it be enough to stop her enemies? Review Filled with mysteries, realistic characters and lots of action . . . Wake is the next great book. --RT Book Reviews High school, family, young love, and mythology all combine to create an easy-to-read paranormal suspense story that will have fans eagerly awaiting new installments. --Booklist Amanda Hocking knows how to tell a good story and keep readers coming back for more. More is exactly what they will be looking for once theyve turned the last page. --Kirkus Reviews Hocking hits all the commercial high notes... She knows how to keep readers turning the pages. --New York Times Book Review About the Author Amanda Hocking is a lifelong Minnesotan obsessed with Batman and Jim Henson. In between watching cooking shows, taking care of her small menagerie of pets, and drinking too much Red Bull Zero, she writes young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance. She has published over fifteen young adult novels, including the New York Times Bestselling series the Trylle Trilogy and the Kanin Chronicles, along with Watersong, My Blood Approves and the Hollows. For more info, please visit HockingBooks...

-Titulo Original : Wicked Little Secrets A Prep School Confidential Novel (a Prep School Confidential Novel, 2)-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: In Kara Taylors Wicked Little Secrets, Anne Dowling becomes entangled in a web of secrets involving a missing student and a conspiracy at Wheatley Prep in this fast-paced, juicy follow-up to Prep School ConfidentialAnne Dowling a fresh, original, and funny new YA whose heroine has knowing, irreverent voice readers will love is back for her second semester at Wheatley Prep. Although things have settled (somewhat) since her roommate Isabellas death, Annes still kind of obsessed with the death of Wheatley student Matthew Weaver thirty years ago, since she found a picture of him and his crewmates with the words they killed him scrawled on the back among Isabellas things.When Anne learns that her boyfriend Brents dad is one of the now-powerful Wheatley alumni who rowed crew with Matthew, and that the crew team continues to induct new members with a creepy-sounding ritual called The Drop, she knows further investigation could put her relationship with Brent in danger. Determined to discover the truth, she reaches out to Anthony, Isabellas townie brother, who helps her delve deeper into the secrets in Wheatleys past. Secrets someone would kill to keep hidden. As the schools Spring Formal and its notorious afterparty approaches, Anne sees the perfect opportunity to do some off-campus digging into the lives of Wheatleys VIPs in this thrilling, unputdownable read but if shes not careful, shell be the next student who never comes back. Review “Kara Taylors Prep School Confidential series is Veronica Mars meets Dennis Lehane... Refreshingly smart and quick-witted, Taylors is a thoroughly optimistic portrayal of American education, peppered with references to Milton and Spenser, and she writes the kind of honest portrayal of teenagers that only someone who recently was one can. Almost-totally-reformed party girl Anne is a thoughtful, empathetic character with a strong moral compass, someone young readers can relate to while still enjoying a fast-paced murder mystery. As a twenty-something author, Kara Taylor shows incredible promise.” Portland Book Review About the Author KARA TAYLOR is twenty-two years old. She completed Prep School Confidential during her first semester of graduate school, in between pulling all nighters and listening to her father say writing isn’t a real job. In the past, Taylor has worked as everything from a nanny to an ice cream scooper on Fire Island, New York...

-Titulo Original : Death And The Girl He Loves-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: From Darynda Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of Death and the Girl Next Door and Death, Doom & Detention, comes Death and the Girl He Loves, the exciting third book in her new young adult series DarklightThe fate of the world is not something a girl wants on her shoulders, and that is especially true for Lorelei McAlister. Unfortunately for her, that is exactly where the worlds fate has decided to take up residence. Lorelei has seen firsthand the horrors that lie beneath our everyday world. And those horrors are getting her friends killed. Because of this, she agrees to leave the sanctity of her hometown and is sent to a different world entirely. A boarding school. But even here she is being watched. Someone knows what she is. What she carries inside her soul. And on top of that shes seeing visions. This is nothing new for Lorelei. But these visions are something more: death, destruction, and the end of the world. Lorelei must face the fact that there are people who want her dead, and no matter where she goes, no matter how far she runs, the lives of her friends and family are in mortal peril. Lucky for her, her friends and family include the handsome Angel of Death, a fiercely protective half-angel, and a ragtag group of loyal supporters who arent afraid to get a little dirty in the name of fighting pure evil. From School Library Journal Gr 8 Up-Fans of Joness Darklight series (St. Martins Griffin) will be delighted with this final installment. Lorelei McAlister-destined to stop an impending war between humans and demons and in love with the Angel of Death-adopts an alias, leaves her hometown in New Mexico to protect her loved ones, and takes up residence at a Maine boarding school. While visions are nothing new to to the teen, her latest depict not only peoples deaths but the end of the world. Lorelei is also aware that she is being followed by someone who knows her true identity (and that she carries a demon in her soul). The feisty heroine enlists her friends help (including that of a brooding Nephilim) to fulfill her role as the Prophet, making this story line darker than the previous books. The characters are more focused, well-developed, and witty in this entry, and the dialogue is quick and fun. Loose ends are tied up somewhat satisfyingly, and the surprise conclusion will not disappoint. Because this novel is confusing for those who have not read the earlier titles, libraries looking to deepen their paranormal romance collections will want to make sure that these are available.-Karen Alexander, Lake Fenton High School, Linden, MI From Booklist Bring your orange soda and get ready for the snarkiest apocalypse ever. In this third title in Jones’ fantasy trilogy, Lorelei McAlister has been sent into hiding at an elite boarding school in Maine-as far from the doomsday events in Riley’s Switch, New Mexico as possible. But her visions confirm her worst fears: the world is going to end, and she cannot stop it. So she returns home to make her final stand with her friends and family (can you say, “deus ex machina”?). The book benefits from its trim page count and moves at a brisk pace. Lorelei still indulges in too much hand-wringing, but with the Angel of Death on her side, rapture may be secured. Grades 9-12. --Kara Dean Review “Fast-paced, action-packed, and full of mysteries, Death, Doom, and Detention is a solid sequel that should keep fans of the series turning the pages long into the night.” YA Books Central on Death, Doom, and Detention“Joness Darklight series features all of the same attitude and humor as her adult series, but with a cast of teen characters, making it fun for adult fans as well as teens.” BookBitch on Death, Doom, and Detention“Darynda Jones manages to write a completely unique story about a girl whos lost in her own way, an angel whos darker than he seems, and a prophecy thats scaring everyone and anyone. It s...

-Titulo Original : Death, Doom, And Detention-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: In New York Times bestselling author Darynda Joness Death, Doom and Detention, the normal part of Lorelei MacAlisters life didnt just slip away quietly the day Jared Kovach came to town. Nope. The normal part of her life shattered. It exploded. It burst into a gazillion shards of fleeting light.It went out with a bang.Goodbye normal.Hello dark and eerie.While her best friend, Brooklyn, is focusing all of her energy on helping Lorelei hone her abilities, Lorelei is dealing with the reality that Satans second in command has taken up residence inside her body. Oh, and the fact that she has a crush on the Angel of Death. But what a beautiful death it is. If those werent bad enough, something sinister has come to town and it wants nothing more than to hear Loreleis dying breath as it strangles it out of her. Thank goodness the gang has a supernatural champion. But what happens when the only being who can save them switches sides midstream? How can a group of misfits capture one of the most powerful beings ever created? And will they find out how to bring Jared back to them before its too late? Review “Forbidden love, jealousy, imminent apocalypse… theyre all here! . . . You really cant go wrong with this snazzy supernatural tale.” School Library Journal About the Author New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier, and her books have been translated into 17 languages. As a born storyteller, Darynda grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, certain they went away the better for it. She penned the international bestselling Charley Davidson series and is currently working on several beloved projects, most notably the Sunshine Vicram Mystery Series with St. Martins Press and the Betwixt and Between Series of paranormal womens fiction. She lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys...

-Titulo Original : You Know Me Well-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: You Know Me Well is a deeply honest story about navigating the joys and heartaches of first love, one truth at a time. Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really?Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year, but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed. That is until Kate spots Mark miles away from home, out in the city for a wild, unexpected night. Kate is lost, having just run away from a chance to finally meet the girl she has been in love with from afar. Mark, meanwhile, is in love with his best friend Ryan, who may or may not feel the same way. When Kate and Mark meet up, little do they know how important they will become to each other -- and how, in a very short time, they will know each other better than any of the people who are supposed to know them more.Told in alternating points of view by Nina LaCour, the award-winning author of Hold Still and The Disenchantments, and David Levithan, the best-selling author of Every Day and co-author of Nick and Norahs Infinite Playlist (with Rachel Cohn) and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with John Green). Review A Publishers Weekly Staff Pick for Best Summer Book of 2016!A Bustle Summer 2016 YA Summer Reading Guide Pick!A PopSugar Best Book of JuneA New York Daily News Summer Pick for TeensA Seventeen Magazine Best YA Book of 2016You Know Me Well perfectly encapsulates those fraught, end-all-be-all feelings of high-school romance and graduation. The raw emotion of this novel will delight fans of Rainbow Rowell and John Green. -BookPageBoth authors excel at writing smart, funny, and realistic dialogue. These are characters to whom readers will relate and want to get to know. -School Library Journal...incisively explore(s) the excitement and costs of change, and the importance of friends in figuring out what to keep and what to jettison. -Publishers WeeklyThe pacing and voices of LaCours and Levithans alternating points of view are on point, keeping this sweet...tale moving gladly forward. -Kirkus Review“Often subtle and always absorbing examination of fraught relationships…popular authors LaCour and Levithan tell their heartfelt story seamlessly in chapters that alternate between Mark’s and Kate’s respective points of view and invite readers’ emotional engagement with these two empathetic teens.” -Booklist“A perfect read for the bolter in all of us… LaCour and Levithan join together to give an honest view of the anxious teenage psyche.” -Romantic TimesTwo powerful forces in YA lit team up to tell one unique story in You Know Me Well. -BustleTeens, queer or straight, are often dramatic and unsure of themselves, and by moving its characters beyond the coming-out trope and giving them other questions to focus on, this book gives them room to be. -Horn Book ReviewLaCour and Levithan are both dab hands at utopian romance. -The Bulletin of the Center for Childrens BooksNina LaCour and David Levithan are two of the best YA authors working right now, and this story is further proof. This fun, sweet novel beautifully captures the power of romantic and platonic love alike. -Seventeen Magazine Top 10 YA Book of 2016Few literary titles have been able to portray adult romance as honestly and believably as LaCour and Levithan manage to in this irresistible teenage tale. I can only hope this isnt the last we hear from Kate and Mark. -Edge MediaLevithan and LaCour beautifully capture what it’s like to have a romance against the backdrop of the cool grey city of love. There is something about this place that renders everything full of magic. -Forever Young AdultA sweet, hopeful story about finding the courage to live your truth whatever it may be. And of course, its a story about the friends who guide us through it all. -Bustles Beach Reads About the Author NINA LACOUR is the Mic...

-Titulo Original : The Radius Of Us: A Novel-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: What happens when you fall in love with someone everyone seems determined to fear? Ninety seconds can change a life not just daily routine, but who you are as a person. Gretchen Asher knows this, because that’s how long a stranger held her body to the ground. When a car sped toward them and Gretchen’s attacker told her to run, she recognized a surprising terror in his eyes. And now she doesn’t even recognize herself. Ninety seconds can change a life not just the place you live, but the person others think you are. Phoenix Flores Flores knows this, because months after setting off toward the U.S. / Mexico border in search of safety for his brother, he finally walked out of detention. But Phoenix didn’t just trade a perilous barrio in El Salvador for a leafy suburb in Atlanta. He became that person the one his new neighbors crossed the street to avoid. Ninety seconds can change a life so how will the ninety seconds of Gretchen and Phoenix’s first encounter change theirs? Told in alternating first person points of view, The Radius of Us is a story of love, sacrifice, and the journey from victim to survivor. It offers an intimate glimpse into the causes and devastating impact of Latino gang violence, both in the U.S. and in Central America, and explores the risks that victims take when they try to start over. Most importantly, Marie Marquardts The Radius of Us shows how people struggling to overcome trauma can find healing in love. From School Library Journal Gr 9 Up-Seventeen-year-old Gretchen Ashers life has not been the same since she was mugged in a parking lot one night. The traumatic incident propelled her into a state of panic, and she is unable to go to school, socialize, or interact deeply with her boyfriend, Adam. Months later, while babysitting her niece and nephew in a neighborhood park, Gretchen spots a boy who looks nearly identical to her attacker. She is thrust back into the heart of fear, unaware that the boy, Phoenix, is in the midst of his own struggles. An 18-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, he has just spent four months escorting his brother to the United States to flee gang violence and is in danger of being deported. When circumstances cause Gretchen and Phoenix to continue meeting, they form an unexpected bond. While facing court trials, identity issues, and racial stereotyping, the teens bolster each others courage. With the looming possibility of their permanent separation, the two must decide what is most important to them and what sacrifices are worth making. Tackling the issues of gang violence, immigration, mental health, and cultural bias, this is a compelling story that delivers profound messages through engaging, accessible prose. Both a page-turning romance and a comprehensive view of a young immigrants experience, this novel is sure to encourage empathy and perspective among high school students. VERDICT A must-have for all YA collections.-Karin Greenberg, Queens College, NY Review ...this is a compelling story that delivers profound messages through engaging, accessible prose. Both a page-turning romance and a comprehensive view of a young immigrants experience, this novel is sure to encourage empathy and perspective... VERDICT A must-have for all YA collections. -School Library Journal (Starred Review)[An] eye-opening story. -Kirkus ReviewFor anyone who feels trapped or constrained by borders or barriers, Marie Marquardts The Radius of Us is a bold, brilliant, and decidedly timely novel that reminds us that love can still transcend it all. -Brendan Kiely, New York Times Bestselling author of All American Boys and The Last True Love StoryThe Radius of Us takes the worlds-colliding poignancy and rich characterization of Eleanor & Park and tackles the human workings of immigration. A powerful, empathetic, achingly beautiful and real story of yearning for a better life and the love that comes with it. -Jeff Zentner, auth...

-Titulo Original : Fated (Soul Seekers, 1)-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortals, Alyson Noel, comes Fated a breathtaking new saga brimming with magic, mystery, and an intoxicating love story that will steal your heart away. Meet The Soul Seekers.Strange things are happening to Daire Santos. Crows mock her, glowing people stalk her, time stops without warning, and a beautiful boy with unearthly blue eyes haunts all her dreams. Fearing for her daughters sanity, Daires mother sends her to live with the grandmother shes never met. A woman who recognizes the visions for what they truly are the call to her destiny as a Soul Seeker one who can navigate the worlds between the living and dead.There on the dusty plains of Enchantment, New Mexico, Daire sets out to harness her mystical powers. But its when she meets Dace, the boy from her dreams, that her whole world is shaken to its core. Now Daire is forced to discover if Dace is the one guy shes meant to be with...or if hes allied with the enemy shes destined to destroy. Review “Alyson Noel paints a magical New Mexican landscape.” New Mexico Style“Noel does a terrific job of slowly unspooling secrets and motivations with writing that is both charismatic and spunky.” LA Times“A rush of romance will sweep you away in this hauntingly mystical read. Im already as addicted to Daire and Dace as I was to Ever and Damen. Next book please!” Janet, teen reader from Kentucky for Justine magazine“An adventurous page-turner. Dreams and reality bleed into each other in this dangerous and edgy romance. Another home run series for Alyson Noel!” Anna, teen reader from NY for Justine magazine“Emotional, fast-paced, romantic. I love Alyson Noels lushly descriptive writing -I could hear the beating of the crows wings, feel the blue-eyed boys embrace and smell Palomas coffee in this new Soul Seekers series.” Catherine, teen reader from Florida for Justine magazine“With fantastic characters and an amazing plot,Fated will suck you in and leave you breathless.Noel is a master with words…with passion and thrills around each corner, this book is a must read.” Romantic Times (Top Pick!)“Atmospheric and enjoyable...Noelsmany fans will be eager to find out what happens next.” Publishers Weekly“Readers will feel the pull of Daires quest just as forcefully as Daire herself does, and will count the days until the release of Echo.” Shelf Awareness, Maximum Shelf“A fast and enjoyable read...with some very unique plot twists and balance among the romance, conflict and family relationships.” Deseret News“Two boys, one light and one dark, factor heavily into the intriguing, twisting story line, which is sure to draw Noels numerous fans.” Booklist“Another captivating series from Alyson Noel. Fated did an excellent job setting up everything for the next books in the series. …Im really looking forward to seeing where this series goes!” The Story Siren“Fated reads very well and the descriptions set the scene perfectly. Noel takes the time to set the story up right so it never feels rushed or that any details were missing. …Im glad theres not too long to wait for the sequel - Echo is due out in November of this year.” The Reading Date“If youre looking for a new series to get stuck into The Soul Seekers is out of this world.” Dark Readers“I found myself unable to put this book down, completely captivated by the narration and the beautifully crafted world. It was a refreshing YA fantasy with new elements I’ve never before.” Love, Literature, Art and Reason “A superb thriller. The key to this absorbing tale is the heroine who makes the Noel mythos seem genuine as she enters the underworld while wondering who she can trust. Filled with twists, this is a winning opening act.” Alternative Worlds“This book has it all magick, spookiness, cute boys, a little romance, danger, fun and light-hearted moments, some mystery, and theres even good/evil twins (cute ones, too!) What mor...

-Titulo Original : Keeping Secrets: Two Books In One: Saving Zoe And Faking 19-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: A beautifully repackaged two-in-one reissue of Saving Zoe and Faking 19 by #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noel Secret wishes, hidden heartaches and painful truths. Everyone has them but some secrets are harder to hide. We usually tell our best friends everything. Our crushes, our embarrassing stories, our secrets but sometimes there are truths so deep and dark that we cant tell anyone. Not our parents, not our sisters…not even our best friends. Some secrets are so unspeakable that we keep them safely locked away so no one will ever discover them. But what happens when they become more than you can handle alone? In these two magnificent novels, two girls cant tell anyone about the terrible burdens they carry. But as theyre about to learn, its not our secrets that matter most but those who still love us once they learn the truth. About the Author Alyson Noel is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Faking 19, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, Laguna Cove, Fly Me to the Moon, Kiss & Blog, Saving Zoe, Cruel Summer, and the Immortals series including Evermore, Blue Moon, Shadowland, Dark Flame, and Night Star, as well as the Immortals spin-off series beginning with Radiance. With over 2 million copies in print in the US alone, her books have been published in 35 countries and have won awards including the National Readers Choice Award, NYLA Book of Winter Award, NYPL Stuff for the Teenage, TeenReads Best Books of 2007, and Reviewers Choice 2007 Top Ten, and have been chosen for the CBS Early Shows Give the Gift of Reading segment, and selected for Seventeen Magazines Hot List and Beach Book Club Pick. She lives in Laguna Beach, California...

-Titulo Original : The Hundred-year Marathon Chinas Secret Strategy To Replace America As The Global Superpower-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: About the Author Michael Pillsbury is the director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and has served in presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, he is a former analyst at the RAND Corporation and research fellow at Harvard and has served in senior positions in the Defense Department and on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C. One of the U.S. governments leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that countrys rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the worlds leading superpower.For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that Chinas rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the China Dream is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals Chinas secret strategy to supplant the United States as the worlds dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the hawks in Chinas military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders - as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise.Pillsbury also explains how the U.S. government has helped - sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately - to make this China Dream come true, and he calls for the United States to implement a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century. Review #1 National Bestseller“China’s ambition to become the world’s dominant power has been there all along, virtually burned into the country’s cultural DNA and hiding, as [Pillsbury] says, in plain sight… The author is correct to assert that China constitutes, by far, the biggest national challenge to America’s position in the world today.” The Wall Street Journal“Provocative…. detailed and rigorous. [Pillsbury is] right that for Washington, assessing the nature of China’s ambition, and responding to it effectively, may be the central foreign policy challenge of our time.” Newsweek“Pungently written and rich in detail, this book deserves to enter the mainstream ofdebate over the future of U.S. Chinese relations.” Foreign Affairs“The Hundred-Year Marathon looks at the critical issues of who is in fact making policy in the Chinese capital and, as a result, it will be read, analyzed and debated for years. Think of Pillsbury as our time’s Paul Revere.” Gordon Chang, The National Interest“This is a highly engaging and thought-provoking read. It does what few books do well, and that is to mix scholarship, policy, and memoir-style writing in an accessible but still intellectually rich fashion. . . . Pillsbury . . . draw[s] on his extensive knowledge of Chinese historical military writings and theory as well as his interactions with Chinese defectors and senior military officers to develop a compelling analytical defense of this thesis. ...

-Titulo Original : The Character Edge Leading And Winning With Integrity-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: About the Author Lieutenant General Robert L. Caslen, Jr. was the 29th president of the University of South Carolina. Caslen is a retired Army lieutenant general and former superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. After retiring from the Army in 2018, Caslen became the senior counsel to the president at the University of Central Florida. Caslen grew up in Vermont, worked in his family’s ski lodge, and then was recruited to play football at West Point. Along with his bachelor’s degree from West Point, Caslen holds an MBA in finance from Long Island University and a master’s in industrial engineering from Kansas State University. He and his wife, Shelly, have been married for over 40 years and have three sons and four grandchildren.Michael D. Matthews is Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Military Psychology from 2007 to 2008 and is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Fellow for the U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Strategic Studies Group. He has authored more than 250 scientific papers and edited several books on military psychology, and is the author of Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War (Oxford University Press, 2014, revised edition, 2020). His book (coedited with David M. Schnyer), Human Performance Optimization: The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities (Oxford University Press) was published in 2019. The former superintendent at West Point and a psychologist explain why all successful leaders rely on a foundation of strong character. Among the most successful leaders throughout history from Abe Lincoln to Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi to Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela some were brilliant mathematicians and economists, others were creative visionaries, still others were masterful at strategic planning. Their mastery of their field wasn’t the secret to their highly effective leadership. All of their skill, grit, resilience, charisma, and courage emanated from one thing: their strength of character.Character the moral values and habits of an individual is in the spotlight now more than perhaps at any other point in modern history. Politicians distort facts. Corporations cheat customers and investors. Athletes are caught using illegal supplements. In addition to harming our culture at large, these failures of character have a profound and undermining impact on leadership.The authors of this book are experts on the value of character, its correlation with successful leadership, and how to build it in individuals and prospective leaders. General Robert L. Caslen, Jr. served the US Army for over 43 years and served as Superintendent at the US Military Academy at West Point. Psychologist Dr. Michael D. Matthews is a Professor of Engineering Psychology at West Point who has focused on the psychology of character for years. Together they witnessed firsthand that raw talent is not enough to stand on its own; successful leadership relies on the critical foundation of a strong character.In The Character Edge they leverage their perspectives to offer an empowering, story-driven argument backed by the latest scientific research that character is vital to success. They give readers the tools to build and sustain character in themselves and their organizations by testing readers strengths of the gut, head and heart and teaching how to build trust and nurture the seeds of character. Review The Character Edge is a unique and valuable book because it combines the battle-tested leadership lessons of General Caslen with the perspective of Professor Matthews, a senior behavioral scientist. It is both substantive and wonderfully readable, packed with stories many of them quite moving backed up with serious research. ForbesReaders of Th...

-Titulo Original : Sooner The Making Of A Football Coach - Lincoln Rileys Rise From West Texas To The University Of Oklahoma-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Lincoln Riley: Quarterback Whisperer, Back-to-back Big 12 champion, Head coach of the OU SoonersLegendary University of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops shook the college football world in 2017 when he handpicked Lincoln Riley to be his successor at the perennial powerhouse. At age thirty-three. In his first three seasons at Oklahoma, Riley’s teams dominated the Big 12 to reach the national semifinals each year, and two of his quarterbacks Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy and were No. 1 overall picks by the Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals in the NFL draft.In Sooner, Brandon Sneed charts Riley’s remarkable ascent from small-town star quarterback in West Texas, to walk-on turned assistant coach at Texas Tech, where he learned the revolutionary Air Raid system from Mike Leach, to offensive coordinator at East Carolina, to football titan Oklahoma. It takes more than sheer talent to go toe to toe with the brilliant strategists of the modern game like The University of Alabama’s Nick Saban, University of Texas’s Tom Herman, and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and Sneed shows how this wunderkind’s commitment, grit, relationships, pain, brains, and passion have empowered him to compete. And win.More important than the zealous fans, the intense rivalries, and the multimillion-dollar contracts, are the human connections that lie at the heart of Lincoln Riley’s triumphs as a coach. Sooner is not only the story of a mastermind in the making, but also a reminder of the many people who make each of us who we are. Review “In Sooner, we learn how Oklahoma wunderkind Lincoln Riley combined grit and guile on his journey from Muleshoe, Texas, to join the pantheon of college football geniuses. With rigorous reporting and dazzling prose, Brandon Sneed has given us the exhilarating story of the making of a thirty-three-year-old coaching mastermind. Sooner is the sports book of 2020.” Don Van Natta Jr., New York Times bestselling author of First Off the Tee and Wonder Girl and winner of a Pulitzer Prize“Lincoln Riley didn’t just miraculously arrive as Oklahoma’s boy genius savior but took lumps and setbacks along the way. Brandon Sneed skillfully guides readers through each step of Riley’s parallel paths of a man evolving into a coach and a coach maturing into a man, to his ultimate destination on top of the Big 12.” Jonathan Abrams, New York Times bestselling author of Boys Among Men and All the Pieces Matter“Lincoln Riley becoming Oklahoma’s head coach at just thirty-three years old was astonishing. So is the story of how he got there. It is full of surprising twists and turns, and Brandon Sneed tells it beautifully. He gives us not just a great story of a young man learning how to be a coach, but also a raw and moving meditation on what it means to grow as a human being. This is the football book of the year. You’ll be glad you read it.” Lars Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Mannings, Chasing the Bear, and The Storm and the Tide“Lincoln Riley can seem, from the outside, to be a whiz-kid overnight success story. But Brandon Sneed’s Sooner shows how his success is rooted in work ethic, dedication, smarts, and good old-fashioned elbow grease. It’s a comprehensive, intelligent look at a man whose story is just getting started.” Will Leitch, author of Are We Winning? and God Save the Fan“Lincoln Riley’s meteoric rise to the top echelon of college football might seem preordained, but Brandon Sneed tells a very different story. He artfully explores the traits, the big breaks, and the crucial moments that led Riley from Muleshoe, Texas, to the throne of a blue-blood program at just 33 years old six hours and several lightyears from where he started. Sooner is a rich biography of a fascinating person, which will quickly find its place in the canon of college football’s must-reads.” John U. Bacon, bestselling author of Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Cros...

-Titulo Original : When Giants Walked The Earth A Biography Of Led Zeppelin-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday.Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Pages interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history. Review “Sensational.” New York Times“Entertaining, thoughtful.” Los Angeles Times“His access and attention to detail make this a definitive work...an essential source for anyone eager to learn about the era when rock stars ruled the world.” Publishers Weekly“Wall does well to shine light on the myths and music magic of Led Zep--rendering what could have been cartoonish real and sincere.” TimeOut Chicago“[T]hat Wall can add so much fresh detail to the Led Zep story is in itself an extraordinary achievement…(and) he manages to humanize these planet-striding giants while doing so…” Classic Rock Magazine“It deftly strikes the balance between lofty authority and finding a way to get inside the heads of its subjects.” The Guardian (UK)“[T]his is the big one: a fat, juicy biography of the biggest band ever.” Daily Telegraph (UK) About the Author MICK WALL is one of England’s best known music journalists: his work has appeared in Classic Rock, Mojo, the London Times and a variety of other publications, and his books include the rock ‘n’ roll biographies When Giants Walked the Earth and Enter Night. He has also served as a trusted on-camera source for a number of BBC-TV music documentaries. He lives in England...

-Titulo Original : Searching For Beauty The Life Of Millicent Rogers, The American Heiress Who Taught The World About Style-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Burns makes it abundantly clear . . . they just dont make heiresses like Millicent Rogers anymore. Hampton SidesNobody knew how to live the high life like Standard Oil heiress Millicent Rogers. Born to luxury, she lived in a whirl of European vacations, exquisite clothing, and dashing men. In Searching for Beauty, Cherie Burns chronicles Rogerss rebellious life from her days as a young girl afflicted with rheumatic fever to her final days as one of the legendary chatelaines of New Mexico. She eloped with a penniless baron; danced tangos in European nightclubs; romanced Roald Dahl, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, and Hollywood icon Clark Gable; and triumphed in the world of fashion. She was muse to legendary American designer Charles James, appeared in Vogue and Harpers Bazaar and popularized Southwestern style by adopting turquoise jewelry, squaw skirts and short-waist jackets as her signature look. With Searching for Beauty, Millicent Rogers enters the pantheon of great American women who, like Diana Vreeland and Babe Paley, put their distinctive stamp on American style. Review “Millicent Rogers is truly an American Legend and Cherie Burns has finally given us a wonderful biography about her!” Diane Von Furstenberg“What a fabulous life! Rogers was an American original who charged through her wildly varied career with coruscating originality and maximum style. Hers was a high-wire act of glamour, art, philanthropy, and rapier smarts. With this fine biography, Cherie Burns makes it abundantly clear that, in our sorry age of Paris Hilton brats, they just dont make heiresses like Millicent Rogers anymore.” Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder“Cheri Burns has given us a glittering tale of Millicent Rogers, one of the most glamorous women of the twentieth century. Anyone who is interested in the annals of high society will be fascinated with this book. Burns has reached far beyond the gossip of how the very rich live and produced an intimate and deeply personal view of Millicent Rogers, her family and her unending search for love and beauty.” Adam Lewis, author of The Great Lady Decorators, Billy Baldwin, Albert Hadley and Van Day Truex“Standard oil heiress and fashion icon Millicent Rogers, a beauty who traveled with thirty-five suitcases and seven dachshunds, made headlines throughout her life for her famous romances and influence as a style-setter. Cherie Burns has written a page-turning tale of a society rebel.” Meryl Gordon, author of Mrs. Astor Regrets About the Author CHERIE BURNS is the author of Searching for Beauty, The Great Hurricane: 1938, and Stepmotherhood. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, People, and Glamour, among others. She lives in Taos, New Mexico...

-Titulo Original : I Like You Just The Way I Am Stories About Me And Some Other People-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Hi, Im Jenny Mollen, an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. Im also a wife, married to someone more famous than me, which is especially annoying because all the free clothing he gets never come in a size small. This is my book, an assortment of stories about not doing the right thing. Yes, its about me. But its also about women, who all come in two types: those that are totally batshit crazy, and those that are liars. Its a book about acting on impulses, plotting elaborate hoaxes, and refusing to acknowledge boundaries in any form. Like hiding in the trunk of a car to get a look at the girl who used to fuck my husband. Or pretending to have a seizure on a red-eye to New York in order to explain why my dog is balls-deep in a bag of Pirates Booty burrowed in the lap of a sleeping child. Life is too short for bullshit. Im 33 and my tits drop half an inch a year. Someday very soon, ladies, you and I are going to be whatever fetish comes after cougar, unable to wear shirts without sleeves, and full of cell phone cancer. It is our obligation to be honest with ourselves about who we really are and what we really want. Which more often than not is someone elses email password. So lets embrace it. I Like You Just the Way I Am is a book about taking the high road as long as it intersects with the train tracks my ex-boyfriend is tied to. Review “Jennys type of fucked up is the kind I want to squish up and put in my bag and keep with me all the time--and now I can. Thanks, America.” Kelly Oxford, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything is Perfect When Youre a Liar “Filth. If you like your ladies hot and your filth filthy, this is the book for you. Jenny is bitchy and body-obsessed, husband-obsessed, self-aggrandizing, and always amazing.” Michael Ian Black, author of the New York Times bestselling My Custom Van “Jenny is crazy. She has the craziest Twitter--everyone should follow her. Somebody needs to make it into a TV show.” Chelsea Handler, author of the New York Times bestselling Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me About the Author JENNY MOLLEN is an actress and writer, called one of the funniest women on Twitter by The Huffington Post. She writes for The Smoking Jacket, has appeared in Wilfred, Suits, CSI NY, Crash, the WB series Angel, and HBOs GIRLS...

-Titulo Original : Robert Mitchum Baby I Dont Care-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: One of the movies greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Farewell, My Lovely; and The Winds of War. Mitchums powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screens first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool.Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Dont Care is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchums family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous. Review “This is a well-researched, highly entertaining, and revealing biography that contextualizes Mitchum in the broader world of industry and national economics, business and politics.” Publishers Weekly“Server sustains a fascination for his subject that is broad enough to encompass the mans miserable behavior alongside [Servers] vast admiration for Mitchums body of work and hugely iconic personality.” The New York Times“Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Dont Care is the big Robert Mitchum book cultists have been waiting for. . . . He was a mans man in a profession of pretenders, a genuine badass, and the undisputed Boss of Cool. Lee Server captures Mitchum completely, and honors him with this fine piece of work.” George P. Pelecanos, author of Right as Rain About the Author LEE SERVER is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Dont Care and Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing. Robert Mitchum was named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, the film biography of the year by the Sunday Times (U.K.) and one of the 60 Greatest Film Books. Ava Gardner was a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and USA Today bestseller. He lives in Palm Springs, California...

-Titulo Original : Hail To The Chin Further Confessions Of A B Movie Actor-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: The New York Times bestselling raucous and sardonic memoir from Bruce Campbell, a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling If Chins Could Kill, now with all new material With an introduction by New York Times bestselling author and famous minor television personality John Hodgman. Hail to the Chin is the new raucous and sardonic memoir from Bruce Campbell, a follow-up to the New York Times bestselling If Chins Could Kill. It’s been 15 years since his first memoir but Bruce is still living the dream as a B movie king in an A movie world. His roles have been as varied as they are numerous--from the Spider-Man movies to his self-referential My Name is Bruce to the #1 show Burn Notice and his STARZ hit series Ash vs Evil Dead. Bruce covers the professional and the personal with stories about his quickly canceled series Jack of All Trades, working on Sci-Fi Channel movies in Bulgaria and playing Santa Claus and Ronald Reagan as well as his move from Los Angeles to Oregon where he distills lavender and joins the local Elks club. And now in this updated paperback, Bruce shares brand new stories from his life since the hardcovers publication, including a requiem of Ash and details from his European book tour. Hail to the Chin will be bursting with pictures and the signature humor that Bruce brought to If Chins Could Kill and will be devoured by his legions of fans across the country. Review Campbell is an amusing raconteur, sharing stories about shooting the indie film My Name Is Bruce in his backyard, working on his old friend Sam Raimi’s Spiderman movies, and spending seven seasons on Burn Notice. . . . Campbell is always entertaining, and his smart-ass style makes for a groovy ride. . . . Fans will eagerly await a sequel. Publishers WeeklyDie-hard fans will embrace it as canon... The Washington PostWhether recounting his life in the boondocks of south Oregon or the making of the dud The Man with the Screaming Brain in Bulgaria, Campbell, backed by co-author Sanborn, and his B-movie anecdotes, are thoroughly engaging and witty. BooklistCampbell sheds further light on the (decidedly unglamorous) existence of a B-list actor, and fans of his work will undoubtedly be excited to read more from the enigmatic movie star.... Chock-full of amusing anecdotes about the underappreciated B-list movie industry. Hand to admirers of Campbells previous book and fans of the talkies. Library JournalA breezy read through a breezy life. Kirkus ReviewsMuch like his Campbell’s on-screen presence, Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor is wildly vivacious. As he explains in the book’s prologue, Campbell sees his memoirs as a trilogy. If If Chins Could Kill was the hero’s origin story, then Hail to the Chin represents the second act. Broke Horror FanPraise for If Chins Could Kill“The book offers insights into the world of independent filmmaking and the life of a “B” actor, but most importantly it succeeds as an evocative memoir that allows the reader to know Campbell.” School Library Journal“An insightful and rant-filled guide to being almost famous.” GQ“Exceptionally literate yet conversational, wide-ranging but never wandering, and copiously, gleefully illustrated…” Booklist entertaining and witty...Forecast: While a boon to film cultists and to Campbells many fans, this book also has enough insights and smarts to appeal to readers with a serious interest in popular culture. Publishers WeeklyCampbell forgoes Hollywood anecdotes for more entertaining tales of struggling to break into the biz (even after Evil Dead II, he had to work security). With a quirky assortment of rants, as well as self-deprecating chapter titles like ”The Higher the Budget, the Lower the Part,” he’s like the dinner guest you wish would never leave. Entertainment WeeklyThis book is indispensable to anyone aspiring to a career as an actor, director, producer, or just about any other aspect of ...

-Titulo Original : Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years (michael Palin Diaries)-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: About the Author MICHAEL PALIN is a comedian, novelist, actor, playwright, and founding member of Monty Python. He is the author of the novel Hemingways Chair as well as several books on the history of Monty Python, including The Pythons, and numerous travel guides, including Brazil and Sahara. He also happens to be one of the funniest people on the planet. He lives in London, England. The amazingly insightful, funny and brilliant record of Michael Palins prime years as a member of the famed comedic group, Monty Python.Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys---Jones and Gilliam---and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palins story. Here is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, which grows as he buys the house next door and then a second at the bottom of the garden; here, too, is his solo effort---as an actor, in Three Men in a Boat, his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produces Ripping Yarns and even a pantomime. Meanwhile Monty Python refuses to go away: the hugely successful movies that follow the TV (his account of the making of both The Holy Grail and the Life of Brian movies are page-turners), the at times extraordinary goings-on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team, the fight to prevent an American TV network from bleeping out the best jokes on U.S. transmission, and much more---all this makes for funny and riveting reading. The birth and childhood of his three children, his fathers growing disability, learning to cope as a young man with celebrity, his friendship with George Harrison, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these diaries. A perceptive and funny chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.A wealth of fascinating stuff about Monty Python.---The Independent (UK...

-Titulo Original : Front Row Anna Wintour What Lies Beneath The Chic Exterior Of Vogues Editor In Chief-Fabricante : St. Martins Griffin-Descripcion Original: Shes ambitious, driven, insecure, needy, a perfectionist and shes considered the most powerful force in the more than $100 billion fashion industry. Shes Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue, the worlds fashion bible. With her signature Louise Brooks bob, trademark sunglasses, and glamorous furs, shes a sexy international diva, gossiped about the world over. As famed designed Oscar de la Renta declares, Shes a star.How did Wintour, who quit school over the length of her hemline, and who had no real writing or communication skills, rise to the pinnacle of the fashion magazine world? Based on scores of interviews with present and former friends and colleagues, Front Row is the scrupulously researched, often shocking life story of this enigmatic icon a candid portrait of a fashion-obsessed teenager in Swinging Sixties London who claws her way up the ivory tower in New York. It is also an intimate examination of Wintours personal passions and needs, her loves lost and won, and her feuds and achievements. Anna Wintours story is an inside look at one of the worlds most influential women as well as the catty, competitive bitch-eat-bitch world of fashion. Meow! Review “Gleefully vicious biography of a New York fashion icon.” Kirkus“The revealing unauthorized biography unveils the Anna Wintour even those closest to her dont know….If you liked The Devil Wears Prada, get your gossip fill with Front Row…we couldnt put it down.” Complete Woman“Better than fiction.” New York Post“For inquiring minds, its a juicy, tabloidesque read.” Houston Chronicle“A fast-paced biographical romp... Mr. Oppenheimer uses Front Row to ladle out dish just as he did in Just Desserts, his 1997 biography of Martha Stewart. What he serves up is pretty juicy.” New York Observer“Filled with gossip and scandals and peppered with celebrity names and tales…[A] fascinating read about one of the great queen-bee bosses and her mission to determine and define fashion.” Booklist“Schadenfreude enthusiasts will enjoy Oppenheimers latest, Front Row, which offers Anna Wintour in extreme close-up.” Los Angeles Times About the Author JERRY OPPENHEIMER is the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty, as well as unauthorized biographies of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Hilton family. He has also worked in several different capacities as a journalist, including as an investigative reporter and a producer of television news programs and documentaries...