New Yorkers Felix Unger and Oscar Madison try to live together as roommates despite the fact that one is a neat freak and the other is a total slob. In this season, sportswriter Oscar hosts his own television show, fussy Felix directs his first television commercial, the roommates appear on two game shows, get arrested, and even give their famous Manhattan apartment a makeover.

From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel's cash shipment before...

"A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality. Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various...

Follows the adventures of the Barkleys, a family of wealthy ranchers in 1870's California.

"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....

"Based on history and Apache culture, and told through his eyes using the truth from fiction, The Odyssey of Geronimo is a revealing epic of Geronimo's strengths, weaknesses, and character. As a prisoner of war for twenty-three years, Geronimo rose to become a national 'superstar.' During his captivity, Geronimo fathered two children, lost three wives, and married two more, and became an astute businessman. When he died from pneumonia after sleeping...

When Nelson Mandela was released after twenty-seven years of imprisonment, he needed a place to recover and adjust to his new life. He went to Londolozi Game Reserve. Founded over eighty years ago by Boyd Varty's great-grandfather, Londolozi started as a hunting safari. But in 1973, Boyd's visionary father, Dave, transformed it into a nature reserve, creating a blueprint for modern-day conservation. This transformation is the backdrop of Boyd's family...

"This collection of new essays examines a range of Gaiman's prolific output. Gaiman's return to the serial comic book form is covered, and Artist J.H. Williams III contributes an exclusive interview about his collaboration with Gaiman. Cartoonist Judd Winick offers a personal essay on how contemporary artists have been influenced by Gaiman's work"--

"A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting"-more violence than sport-to a global pop culture phenomenon"-- "A cultural and business history of the UFC, tracing the unlikely rise of mixed martial arts from what was derided in the '90s as "human cockfighting"-more violence than sport-to a global pop culture phenomenon.Senator John McCain once...

When a successful young black woman is asked to write an ad campaign for malt liquor aimed at black kids, she quits to write the great African-American novel. Born to an African American mother and a white Jewish father, she soon realizes that she's never known who she really is. Nia embarks on an odyssey to find her voice amongst false assumption about race.