From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box comes an unnerving novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes
A boy and a girl are tricked into using magic rings. A beautiful and terrifying queen escapes from a dying world. A lion the great lion Aslan sings a new world into existence. And so Narnia is born, and already a dark treachery threatens its future. The Magician s Nephew is the epic prequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Shepard's bestselling Pretty Little Liars series of novels is "loosely based on her experiences growing up on Philadelphia’s Main Line." The books chronicle the exploits of four teenage girls as a mysterious stalker known as "A" threatens to reveal their darkest secrets.
Bertie Wooster has taken up the banjolele but the manager of the building in central London has issued an ultimatum to either give up the music or clear out. Even the faithful Jeeves threatens to leave so Bertie seeks refuge in the country.
Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
A plea for enhanced scientific literacy, Unscientific America urges those who care about the place of science in our society to take unprecedented action. We must begin to train a small army of ambassadors who can translate science's message and make it relevant to the media, to politicians, and to the public in the broadest sense. An impassioned call to arms worthy of Snow's original manifesto, this book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse--before it's too late.