Product Description: Featuring as the central character, a priest who has resigned his calling due to a loss of faith, this suspense novel was a contender for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.

Product Description: A collection of 14 short stories, the events ranging from the extraordinary to the everyday. The author has also written "Snakewrist" and his stories have appeared in the "London Review of Books", "London Magazine", and the "Critical Quarterly"...read more

Product Description: Just in time for the 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, a rollickingly updated edition of LIVE FROM NEW YORK with nearly 100 new pages covering the past decade.When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night show...read more

Product Description: How did we get into today's financial mess that not only threatens America but the entire world? Remember Enron? Why did that debacle happen? How do groups privy to special knowledge and "truths" make decisions that lead to disasters like the Iraq War, the sinking of the Titanic, and the blow up of the Challenger Shuttle? How could such informed experts end up being so wrong? In Deadly Decisions, Christopher Burns—one of the country’s leading experts on modern information management—searches the biology of the brain, "group think," and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of virtual truth—internally consistent evidence and assumptions that purport to describe reality, but often are dead wrong! • How can we avoid wishful thinking, information overload, uncertainty absorption, and an unintentional twisting of the facts? • Why are startup groups agile and innovative while large organizations lumber along, bogged down in false knowledge? • How can societies rediscover the power of truthful communication?Burns suggests that, as individuals, we must learn to be skeptical of our own sly and beguiling minds...read more

Product Description: The feathers fly as Donald Duck dreams of being the world's newest martial arts movie star! Plenty of hijinks and high-kicks as our wanna be web-footed warrior finds out that being a kung-fu master takes a lot more than he bargained for!

It begins on a quiet city street. A young woman is robbed, with the crime witnessed by a man holding a camera. In the aftermath, victim and voyeur meet. It ends six months later, by which point both their lives - and the way they choose to live them - have changed irrevocably. This is the story of what happened in between.