Author: Ron Suskind
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: hope, extremism, truth, story, world, way
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0061430625
ISBN-13: 9780061430626

From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes an astonishing investigation of how America lost its way and the nation’s daily struggle to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. Tracking down historic revelations and improbable hope from the Beltway to the farthest corners of the globe, Suskind delivers a stirring and strikingly original portrait of the post-9/11 world.

Author: Patrick Suskind
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: perfume
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0307277763
ISBN-13: 9780307277763

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille’s genius is such that he is not satisfie