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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is a stunning collection of Leonard Cohen’s last poems and writings, selected and ordered by Cohen in the final months of his life. The book contains an extensive selection from Cohen’s notebooks...

The small but lively town of Glen Rose, Texas, is famous for its home-brewed whiskey—thanks to the Stark family’s secret recipe. Over the years, Civil War veteran Jed Stark and his tough-as-nails mom, Minnie, have managed to turn their small family distillery into a highly successful business. But whiskey’s not the only thing that’s brewing in Glen Rose. There’s plenty of trouble, too—namely Merlin Sheldrake, a rival distiller who’s got the money, power, and connections to swallow the Starks’ operation in a single gulp.

When secrets are buried, bodies are next. When a man from Dieter Bergheim's past shows up demanding payback for a decades-old betrayal, Dieter refuses to budge. Days later, a break-in at his brother's ranch leaves one man dead and a stash of cash exposed. And Noble County deputy Adam Cash is...

Dave Karger, Turner Classic Movies host and film expert, leads compelling and unexpected discussions with stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sterling K. Brown, Tom Ford, Carol Burnett, Anna Kendrick, Ava DuVernay, Don Cheadle, and many more, on their top film...

A classic summer legal thriller from the most popular storyteller of our time. Dark mysteries invade East Hampton as a struggling lawyer fights to save an old friend from being framed for murder. Montauk lawyer Tom Dunleavy's client list is woefully small, with occasional real estate closings...

A false prophet. A deadly lie. And one deputy who won't look away. Still reeling from the fallout of his last case, Adam Cash takes a new deputy post in Noble County, Texas—hoping for quiet days and clean justice. But when a fatal truck explosion is dismissed as an accident, Cash digs deeper...

A devastating, darkly comic journey into the heart of a Southern family As I Lay Dying follows the Bundrens as they set out to honor their dying mother's final wish: to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi. What begins as a simple promise unravels into a harrowing odyssey of flood...

An innocent man doesn't run. He fights. After two combat tours in Afghanistan, Adam Cash returns to small-town Pinyon, Texas, hoping for peace and a steady job as deputy sheriff. But his high school nemesis, Sheriff Griff Turner, has other plans and makes it clear Cash isn't welcome. Still...

A practical and accessible guide to getting the best from working and managing remotely. The guide that gives you all the know-how you need to manage a team remotely and get the best out of them. More people are working from home - or remotely in other locations or time zones - than ever before...

Cord Bennett staked his claim in the gold-rich Rio Oro Canyon in 1849 at the dawn of the California Gold Rush. That's when all hell broke loose. What started as a makeshift mining camp is now a full-blown boomtown—fueled by greed, plagued by grifters, and overrun by opportunists of every...

War Between Good and Evil: A Collection of Poems, Vol. I is a completed 12,342-word poetry book that mostly describes life in America through the lens of a Black man. The poems describe the challenges of growing up in poverty with an absent father and a mother who will move mountains to hold her family together. The speaker describes his struggles and the challenges of making ends meet and how he eventually overcomes those struggles and achieves his aspirations. The poems are of conflict and triumph.  

One of the most respected comedians in the business, Rodney Laney, is the ultimate showman. The in-demand headliner continues to entertain audiences all over the world with his latest album, I Blame the Publik Skool System.

Coming up through comedy clubs all across America, Rodney had the opportunity to learn the business of funny from some of the best. His first job in Hollywood was serving as writer and warm-up guy for Kym Whitley’s show, Oh Drama, on BET. For four seasons, he served as co-host and “man on the street” for the comedy competition show, Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes?. Rodney kept the funny coming by serving as the opening act for the likes of George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, and Steve Harvey, as well as appearing on several cable comedy showcases.

The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history, laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the book were even previously published by the Atlantic Monthly magazine. When writing, Du Bois drew from his personal experiences as an African-American in America to highlight the issues of prejudice that were still going on into the 20th century.

Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history. Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with 15 of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. No other songwriting team or individual has come close to equaling, let alone surpassing, this record. They’ve been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

In the early 1960s, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January 1965 and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery.

> Down in the Chapel tells the story of one week at Graterford Prison. One part prison procedural, one part philosophical investigation, Down in the Chapel explores the many uses prisoners make of their religions and weighs the circumstances that make these uses possible. Gritty and visceral, meditative and searching, it is an essential study of American religion in the age of mass incarceration.

Marriage is an adventure unlike any other. At times, you andyour spouse may feel so close, connected, and in love that you're ready to takeon the world together. But other times, things grow distant, and you wonderwhere all the joy and excitement has gone. What is the secret to a happy,healthy, God-honoring marriage - one that will last through anything that comesyour way? Join Tony and Lauren Dungy in The Uncommon MarriageAdventure, a series of daily reflections for couples.

Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy have brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which Los Angeles may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, who - with the help of a couple of very gutsy women - survived being anonymous players in a "live-action" film in which death on-screen meant death in real life. Surviving the shoot made them rich enough to escape the post-apocalyptic hell that LA has become.

You may think you’re too old to run fast, but you’re not too old to run well. When the lead runner starts his final lap in a long-distance race, the starter fires his pistol for the second time. This signals the start of the gun lap - the last chance to leave it all out on the track. Gun Lap...