Author: Sun Tzu
Publisher: Delacorte Pre
Keywords: war, art
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1983-03-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0385292163
ISBN-13: 9780385292160

The Art of War is the Swiss army knife of military theory--pop out a different tool for any situation. Folded into this small package are compact views on resourcefulness, momentum, cunning, the profit motive, flexibility, integrity, secrecy, speed, positioning, surprise, deception, manipulation, responsibility, and practicality. Thomas Cleary’s translation keeps the package tight, with crisp language and short sections. Commentaries from the Chinese tradition trail Sun-tzu’s words, elaborating and picking up on puzzling lines. Take the solitary passage: "Do not eat food for their

Author: Warren Fahy
Publisher: Delacorte Pre
Keywords: novel, fragment
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0553807536
ISBN-13: 9780553807530

In this powerhouse of suspense—as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins—scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they’ve seen before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife. Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders—and the ultim

Author: Sara Donati
Publisher: Delacorte Pre
Keywords: novel, forest, endless
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0553805266
ISBN-13: 9780553805260

With a master storyteller’s skill and a historian’s precision, Sara Donati has delighted readers and critics alike with her bestselling novels of the nineteenth-century New York frontier. Now she brings us The Endless Forest, set in the remote village of Paradise, where the Bonner family that readers first met in Into the Wilderness make their home.The spring of 1824 is a challenging one for the inhabitants of Paradise N.Y. when a flood devastates the village. But for Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner, it’s also a time of reunion as their children return from far-off places: Lily and her hu

Author: Conn Iggulde
Publisher: Delacorte Pre
Keywords: bow, lords, genghis
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0385339526
ISBN-13: 9780385339520

Conn Iggulden’s novels are grand historical tales of conquest and vengeance, cruelty and greatness. Now the acclaimed author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire delivers a masterful new novel of the mighty Mongol conqueror—as Genghis Khan sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule.…He came from over the horizon, a single Mongol warrior surrounded by his brothers, sons, and fellow tribesmen. With each battle his legend grew and the ranks of his horsemen swelled, as did his ambition. For centuries, primitive tribes had warred with one another. Now, under Genghis Khan, they have united

Author: Irwin Shaw
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Keywords: top
Published: 1979-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0385290683
ISBN-13: 9780385290685

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Keywords: reacher, novels, jack, novel, hours
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-05-18
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0385340583
ISBN-13: 9780385340588

Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a k

Author: Colin Wells
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Keywords: shaped, world, empire, lost, byzantium, sailing
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-07-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 055338273X
ISBN-13: 9780553382730

A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege….Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them.The story of Byzantium is