Outliers: The Story of Success

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In his provocative and inspiring book Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes software billionaires to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising and more fascinating than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do as who we are - and that no one not even a genius ever makes it alone. "Outliers" will change the way you think about your own life story and about what makes us all unique. Like "Blink" this is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.[]

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THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED (non illustrated)

One of Fitzgerald's best-known works this glittering novel is set against an era of intoxicating excitement and ruinous excess. Hilarious and heartbreaking this is a scathing ironic tale of a couple that parallels the real-life relationship of Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda from its romantic beginning to its tragic end. This edition features a lively Introduction with biographical and historical background and critical essays. (July)

First published in 1922 "The Beautiful and the Damned" followed Fitzgerald's impeccable debut "This Side of Paradise" thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author's lyrical prose here is the story of Harvard-educated aspiring aeshete Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife Gloria. As they await the inheritance of his grandfather's fortune their reckless marriage sways under the influence of alcohol and avarice. A devastating look at the nouveaux riches and New York nightlife as well as the ruinous effects wild ambiion "The Beautiful and the Damned" achieved stature as one of Fitzgerzld's most accomplished novels. Its distinction as a classic endures to this day. (non illustrated)[]

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The Perfect Christmas (Thorndike Basic)

For Cassie Beaumont it’s meeting her perfect match. Cassie at thirty-three wants a husband and kids and so far nothing’s worked. Not blind dates not the Internet and certainly not leaving love to chance. What’s left? A professional matchmaker. He’s Simon Dodson and he’s very choosy about the clients he takes on. Cassie finds Simon a difficult acerbic know-it-all and she’s astonished when he accepts her as a client. Claiming he has her perfect mate in mind Simon assigns her three tasks to complete before she meets him. Three tasks that are all about Christmas: being a charity bell ringer dressing up as Santa’s elf at a children’s party and preparing a traditional turkey dinner for her neighbors (whom she happens to dislike). Despite a number of comical mishaps Cassie does it all—and she’s finally ready to meet her match. But just like the perfect Christmas gift he turns out to be a wonderful surprise! What would the holidays be without a Christmas story from Debbie Macomber?[]

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Evergreen A Christmas Tale

A dying grandfather tells the story of the first Christmas tree to a family wrenched by strife.[]

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NORTHANGER ABBEY (non illustrated)

CATHERINE MORLAND goes to Bath for the season as the guest of MR and MRS ALLEN and there she meets the eccentric GENERAL TILNEY his son HENRY TILNEY and his daughter ELANOR TILNEY. Catherine is invited to the Tilney's home the Northanger Abbey of the title where she imagines numerous gruesome secrets surrounding the General and his house. Henry proves that her suspicions have no substance by while she is still recovering from the humiliation she finds herself ordered out of the house by the General. She returns home and is followed by Henry. He explains that the General mistakenly believing her to be penniless had been anxious to keep her away from his son. Restored to a sensible humour by the truth the General finally gives his blessing to Henry's marriage to Catherine. (non illustrated)[]

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Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy [illustrated high-level formatting]

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore the novel's first complete appearance was in book form.

Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of high life" Fyodor Dostoevsky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style" and by William Faulkner who described the novel as "the best ever written". The novel is currently enjoying popularity as demonstrated by a recent poll of 125 contemporary authors by J. Peder Zane published in 2007 in The Top Ten which declared that Anna Karenina is the "greatest novel ever written".[[]

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51/50: The Magical Adventures of a Single Life

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