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A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINALA hit man stalks his mark at a race track. A sociopath crosses every moral boundary to become a published author. An ex-mercenary obsessively defends his ';perimeter' from a dangerous interloper. A man for hire grudgingly accepts help from a teenage girl to track an online predator. In a dystopian...

&';The apparently fixed constellations of family relationships, the recurrent beauties of nature, the flaming or flickering patterns of love and lustall the elements of Kawabata&'s fictional world are combined in an engrossing novel that rises to the incantatory fascination of a N drama.&' Saturday Review Few novels have rendered the predicament of...

The Letters of Truman CapoteThe private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century's most colorful and fascinating literary figures.Capote was an inveterate letter writer. He wrote letters as he...

Why There Is No Perfect DesignWhy has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry...

The Life and Death of an Advertising CampaignRothenberg chronicles the brief, turbulent marriage between a recession-plagued auto company and an aggressively hip ad agency (whose creative director despised cars), capturing both the ad world's tantalizing gossip and the broader significance of its creations. Simply the best book about...

Life is a game: it's a movie and it's a book. It's not always easy, but there is always a way. You just have to look at it the right way.In this stunning debut, Daniel Wagner delivers a soulful examination of the forces that both drive us and oppose us. Jim Frazier is a writer with very little to show for it. He worries that the only way to achieve...