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Kate Zambreno

Heroines

<p>On the last day of December, 2009 Kate Zambreno began a blog called , arising from her obsession with the female modernists and her recent transplantation to Akron, Ohio, where her husband held a university job. Widely reposted, Zambreno's blog became an outlet for her highly informed and passionate rants about the fates of the modernist "wives and mistresses." In her blog entries, Zambreno reclaimed the traditionally pathologized biographies of Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, Jean Rhys, and Zelda Fitzgerald: writers and artists themselves who served as male writers' muses only to end their lives silenced, erased, and institutionalized. Over the course of two years, helped create a community where today's "toxic girls" could devise a new feminist discourse, writing in the margins and developing an alternative canon.</p><p>In , Zambreno extends the polemic begun on her blog into a dazzling, original work of literary scholarship. Combing theories that have dictated what literature should be and who is allowed to write it-from T. S. Eliot's New Criticism to the writings of such mid-century intellectuals as Elizabeth Hardwick and Mary McCarthy to the occasional "girl-on-girl crime" of the Second Wave of feminism-she traces the genesis of a cultural template that consistently exiles female experience to the realm of the "minor," and diagnoses women for transgressing social bounds. "ANXIETY: When she experiences it, it's pathological," writes Zambreno. "When he does, it's existential." By advancing the Girl-As-Philosopher, Zambreno reinvents feminism for her generation while providing a model for a newly subjectivized criticism.</p><

Sarah Zettel

Under Pressure

There are those who disdain science because it’s “so cut and dried.” Which only proves they’ve never tried to do any…<

Timothy Zahn

The Play's the Thing

Good hosts try to accommodate their guests—which in the case of alien diplomats, may mean far more than they anticipate!<

Carl Zimmer

Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

<p>Imagine a world where parasites control the minds of their hosts, sending them to their destruction. </p><p>Imagine a world where parasites are masters of chemical warfare and camouflage, able to cloak themselves with their hosts’ own molecules. </p><p>Imagine a world where parasites steer the course of evolution, where the majority of species are parasites. </p><p>WELCOME TO EARTH.</p><p>For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world’s most successful and sophisticated organisms. In , Carl Zimmer deftly balances the scientific and the disgusting as he takes readers on a fantastic voyage. Traveling from the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite haven of southern Sudan, Zimmer graphically brings to life how parasites can change DNA, rewire the brain, make men more distrustful and women more outgoing, and turn hosts into the living dead. </p><p>This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe.</p><

Carl Zimmer

Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

This remarkable book presents a rich and up-to-date view of evolution that explores the far-reaching implications of Darwin’s theory and emphasizes the power, significance, and relevance of evolution to our lives today. After all, we ourselves are the product of evolution, and we can tackle many of our gravest challenges––from lethal resurgence of antibiotic-resistant diseases to the wave of extinctions that looms before us––with a sound understanding of the science.<

Roger Zelazny

La pierre des étoiles

<p>Où se trouve la Pierre des Étoiles ? Cet étrange objet a été offert par des extra-terrestres en échange des joyaux de la couronne d'Angleterre. Or il a disparu et tout le monde est convaincu que Fred, un vieil étudiant qui a des talents d'équilibriste, sait où il est.</p><p>Alors commence pour le jeune homme une étonnante histoire car humains et extra-terrestres rivalisent d'ingéniosité pour tenter d'arracher de son subconscient les renseignements désirés.</p><p>Une merveilleux conte fantastique dont l'action se déroule selon la logique de Lewis Carroll, avec des personnages délicieusement farfelus et des animaux qui parlent. On philosophe constamment dans cette histoire, mais avec infiniment de sérieux dans la loufoquerie, et beaucoup de bon sens dans le délire.</p><

Niklas Zetterling

The Korsun Pocket

<p>During the second half of 1943, after the failure at Kursk, Germany’s Army Group South fell back from Russia under repeated hammer blows from the Red Army. Under Erich von Manstein, however, the Germans were able to avoid serious defeats, while at the same time fending off Hitler’s insane orders to hold on to useless territory.</p><p>Then, in January 1944, a disaster happened. Six divisions of Army Group South became surrounded after sudden attacks by the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts under command of generals Nikolai Vatutin and Ivan Konev around the village of Korsun (near the larger town of Cherkassy on the Dnieper). The Germans’ greatest fear was the prospect of another Stalingrad, the catastrophe that had occurred precisely one year before.</p><p>This time, though, Manstein was in control from the start, and he immediately rearranged his Army Group to rescue his trapped divisions. A major panzer drive got underway, led by General der Panzertruppen Hans Hube, a survivor from Stalingrad pocket, which promptly ran up against several soviet tank armies. Leading the break-in was Franz Baeke with his Tiger and Panther-tanks. Due to both weather and ferocious resistance, the German drive stalled. Ju-52s still flew into Korsun’s airfield, delivering supplies and taking out wounded, but it soon became apparent that only one option remained for the beleaguered defenders: breakout.</p><p>Without consulting Hitler, on the night of February 16 Manstein ordered the breakout to begin. Led by the strongest formation within the pocket, SS Wiking, the trapped forces surged out and soon rejoined the surrounding panzer divisions who had been fully engaged in weakening the ring.</p><p>When dawn broke, the Soviets realized their prey was escaping. Although the Germans within the pocket lost nearly all of their heavy weapons and left many wounded behind, their escape was effected. Stalin, having anticipated another Stalingrad, was left with little but an empty bag, as Army Group South—this time—had pulled off a rescue.</p><p>In , Niklas Zetterling, a researcher at the Swedish Defense College since 1995 and Anders Frankson, have provided a highly detailed and often breathtaking account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II. From grand strategy to soldiers’ voices on the ground, including expert statistical analysis, the action, and the stakes, of the battle at Korsun are made vividly clear.</p><

Monika Zeiner

Die Ordnung der Sterne über Como

Wie viel Liebe verträgt eine Freundschaft? Dieser Roman handelt vom verpassten und verspielten Glück und von dem Unglück, im rechten Moment die falschen Worte gesagt zu haben. Er erzählt die Geschichte zweier Männer und einer Frau, die ihre Freundschaft und ihre Liebe aufs Spiel setzen. Tom Holler, halbwegs erfolgreicher Pianist und frisch getrennt von seiner Frau, tourt mit seiner Berliner Band durch Italien. In Neapel hofft er seine große Liebe wiederzutreffen: Betty Morgenthal. Doch je näher ihre Begegnung rückt, desto tiefer taucht Tom in die Vergangenheit ein. Denn vor vielen Jahren verunglückte Marc, sein bester Freund und Bettys Lebensgefährte. Er hat keine andere Wahl, als die fatale Dreiecksgeschichte noch einmal zu erleben. Berlin und Italien, Leichtsinn und Schwermut, Witz und Dramatik, die lauten und die leisen Töne — dieser Debütroman ist voller Musik. „Es ist unerhört selten, dass eine Frau mit dieser Gerechtigkeit, jenseits aller Klischees, über einen Mann schreibt. Was für ein Roman!“ Michael Kumpfmüller „Untergründig und scharfsinnig und im nächsten Moment sehr poetisch und heiter." Rainer Merkel<

Tomáš Zmeškal

A Love Letter in Cuneiform

<p>Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomáš Zmeškal’s stimulating novel focuses on one family’s tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. Kveta chooses to marry Josef over their mutual friend Hynek, but when her husband is later arrested and imprisoned for an unnamed crime, Kveta gives herself to Hynek in return for help and advice. The author explores the complexities of what is not spoken, what cannot be said, the repercussions of silence after an ordeal, the absurdity of forgotten pain, and what it is to be an outsider.</p><p>In Zmeškal’s tale, told not chronologically but rather as a mosaic of events, time progresses unevenly and unpredictably, as does one’s understanding. The saga belongs to a particular family, but it also exposes the larger, ongoing struggle of postcommunist Eastern Europe to come to terms with suffering when catharsis is denied. Reporting from a fresh, multicultural perspective, Zmeškal makes a welcome contribution to European literature in the twenty-first century.</p><

Ulf Erdmann Ziegler

Nichts Weißes

<p>Dies ist die Geschichte von Marleen, die sich, noch ehe sie Lesen lernt, in die Welt der Buchstaben verliebt. Hineingeboren in eine erfolgreiche Werber- und Illustratorenfamilie, träumt sie früh von wahrhaft Großem: der perfekten Schrift.</p><p>An der Kunsthochschule hat sie Rückenwind, kann Marleen sich selbst Kontur verleihen. Ihr Pioniergeist treibt sie voran, bald steckt sie mittendrin in der Jobwelt der Achtziger — und erliegt deren Verheißungen. Die Medien erfahren einen Schub, plötzlich geht alles rasend schnell, schon hat man den Halt verloren. Sie muss erste Rückschläge einstecken, berufliche wie private. Flexibilität ist gefragt, schon in den Anfangszeiten der Globalisierung, und Marleen gibt sich flexibel, koste es, was es wolle — in der Hoffnung, dass ihr Traum weniger flüchtig ist als die Welt, gegen die es gilt, ihn wahrzumachen.</p><p>Mit Nichts Weißes legt Ulf Erdmann Ziegler den Roman einer Generation vor, für die das Hereinbrechen des Computerzeitalters identisch ist mit dem eigenen Erwachsenwerden. Randscharf, raffiniert, brillant.</p><

Judith Zander

Dinge, die wir heute sagten

<p>Bresekow, ein Dorf in Vorpommern. Als die alte Frau Hanske stirbt, kommt ihre Tochter Ingrid mit ihrer Familie aus Irland zur Beerdigung. Ingrid hatte Bresekow vor vielen Jahren fluchtartig verlassen. Der Besuch verändert vieles im Dorf, wirft gerade für die Familien Ploetz und Wachlowski alte und neue Fragen auf. Die Dorfbewohner beginnen zu sprechen, über ihr derzeitiges Leben und ihre Verstrickungen von damals. Bresekow war immer eine kleine Welt, eng, abgelegen und heute zudem vom Verfall bedroht.</p><p>Judith Zander lässt drei Generationen zu Wort kommen. Sie erzählt mit ungeheurer Sprachkraft von einem verschwiegenen Ort im Nordosten Deutschlands, von Provinz und Alltag, von Freundschaft und Verrat, vom Leben selbst.Die Autorin wurde bei den 34. Tagen der deutschsprachigen Literatur in Klagenfurt für ihren Auszug aus 'Dinge, die wir heute sagten' mit dem 3sat-Preis 2010 geehrt. Sie erhielt für diesen Roman den Preis der Sinecure Landsdorf 2010 und war nominiert für den Klaus-Michael Kühne-Preis 2010. Zudem wurde der Roman auf die Shortlist des Deutschen Buchpreises 2010 aufgenommen.</p><

Roger Zelazny

L'île des morts

<p>Francis Sandow est le doyen de la race humaine bien que son corps soit celui d’un jeune homme. Sa fortune est l’une des plus colossales de l’univers connu, mais surtout il est l’un des vingt-six Noms vivants. C’est-à-dire qu’en lui-même réside, en plus de sa personnalité humaine, celle du dieu Shimbo de l’Arbre Noir.</p><p>Jadis il a façonné, par sa seule puissance psychique, l’Ile des morts sur une des planètes de son domaine. Aujourd’hui, un inconnu a rappelé à la vie plusieurs amis ou ennemis de Sandow, disparus depuis des siècles. Celui-ci est obligé de quitter son monde de luxe et d’oisiveté pour affronter l’ennemi qui cherche sa perte.</p><p>Mais ce dernier a usurpé le Nom d’une autre divinité et deux forces cosmiques colossales vont se heurter sur l’île des morts.</p><

Alejandro Zambra

Multiple Choice

<p>“Multiple Choice is unlike anything I’ve ever encountered before. Reading this book is a wonderfully disconcerting and unforgettable experience.” —Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name</p><p>“There is no writer like Alejandro Zambra, no one as bold, as subtle, as funny. Multiple Choice is his most accomplished work yet. This book is not to be missed.” —Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk In Circles</p><p>A masterful, pioneering new work of fiction by “Latin America’s new literary star” (The New Yorker)</p><p>The works of Alejandro Zambra, “the most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño” (New York Times Book Review), are distinguished by their striking originality, their brevity, their strangeness, and their flouting of narrative convention. Now, at the height of his powers, Zambra returns with a book that is the natural extension of these qualities: Multiple Choice.</p><p>Written in the form of a standardized test, Multiple Choice invites the reader to complete virtuoso language exercises and engage with short narrative passages via multiple-choice questions that are thought-provoking, usually unanswerable, and often absurd. It offers a new kind of reading experience, one where the reader participates directly in the creation of meaning. Full of humor, melancholy, and anger, Multiple Choice is about love and family; privacy and the limits of closeness; how a society is affected by the legacies of the past; and the conviction that, rather than learning to think, we are trained to obey and repeat. Serious in its literary ambition but playful in its execution, Multiple Choice confirms Alejandro Zambra as one of the most important writers working in any language.</p><

Wojciech Zukrowski

Stone Tablets

<p>Draining heat, brilliant color, intense smells, and intrusive animals enliven this sweeping Cold War romance. Based on the author’s own experience as a Polish diplomat in India in the late 1950s, was one of the first literary works in Poland to offer trenchant criticisms of Stalinism. Stephanie Kraft’s wondrously vivid translation unlocks this book for the first time to English-speaking readers.</p><p>"A high-paced, passionate narrative in which every detail is vital." — Leslaw Bartelski</p><p>"[Zukrowski is] a brilliantly talented observer of life, a visionary skilled at combining the concrete with the magical, lyricism with realism." — Leszek Zulinski</p><

Xu Zechen

Running Through Beijing

Chinese literature published in the United States has tended to focus on politics — think the Cultural Revolution and dissidents — but there's a whole other world of writing out there. It's punk, dealing with the harsh realities lived by the millions of city-dwellers struggling to get by in the grey economy. Dunhuahg, recently out of prison for selling fake IDs, has just enough money for a couple of meals. He also has no place to stay and no prospects for earning more yuan. When he happens to meet a pretty woman selling pirated DVDs, he falls into both an unexpected romance and a new business venture. But when her on-and-off boyfriend steps back into the picture, Dunhuahg is forced to make some tough decisions. explores an underworld of constant thievery, hardcore porn, cops (both real and impostors), prison bribery, rampant drinking, and the smothering, bone-dry dust storms that blanket one of the world's largest cities. Like a literary it follows a hustling hero rushing at breakneck speed to stay just one step ahead. Full of well-drawn, authentic characters, is a masterful performance from a fresh Chinese voice.<

Jerzy Żuławski

Na srebrnym globie

Trylogia księżycowa

Arthur Zirul

Final Exam

Being ship wrecked on an alien planet has its discomforts—and problems. Like the problem of inducing the local natives, who happened to be divided into two armed camps, to let you get together again!<

L L Zamenhof

Proverbaro Esperanta

<p>Ĉi tiu elektronika Proverbaro Esperanta estas kopiita ĉefe de la unua plena eldono aperinta en 1910.</p><p>Mi aldonas la Antaŭparolon de Zamenhof patro el la unua kajero (1905) de planita seria eldono, kiu devis aperi paralele kun la kvarlingva versio. Tiun tutan entreprenon, al kiu la aŭtoro volis ankoraŭ aldoni latinan kaj hebrean partojn, haltigis lia morto. Lia Antaŭparolo emfazis la multlingvan aspekton de lia projekto, kiu tamen pluvivas preskaŭ nur en sia Esperanta versio, kaj ĝi cetere menciis rusajn «kapvortojn,» kiuj ne plu vidiĝis en la eldono de 1910, kvankam al ili ankoraŭ ŝuldiĝas la vicordo de la proverbgrupoj.</p><p>La nur esperantlingva Proverbaro de 1910 aperis kun «alfabeta registro» aŭ indekso de temoj, kiel klarigite en la Antaŭparolo de Zamenhof filo.</p><p>Miaopinie, la aldono de temvortoj en la ĉefparto faras ĝin iom pli legalloga, do mi aldonis tiajn vortojn, prenante ilin el la indekso. Mi aldonis laŭnumeran registron post la alfabeta. Notu, ke kvankam la plej multaj proverbgrupoj havas po unu temvorto, kelkaj tute ne havas (la indekso preterlasis ilin), kelkaj havas po du, kaj unu havas tri. Menciinde, la temoj grandparte ne tradukas la kapvortojn de Zamenhof patro.</p><p>Krom la aldono de temvortoj kaj korekto de evidentaj preseraroj, mi ŝanĝis la aranĝon de la proverboj per tio, ke mi donis al ĉiu apartan decimalan numeron interne de ties grupo. En la eldono de 1910, ĉiu grupo staras simple kiel numerita alineo.</p><p>Havi la Proverbaron en elektronika formo prezentas diversajn avantaĝojn por esplorado, sed kompreneble la uzanto transskribu ĝin al papero laŭplaĉe kaj laŭ ebleco.</p><p>Ĉiu bonvolu uzi kaj kopii ĉi tiun Proverbaron laŭdezire, ŝanĝante formaton kaj/aŭ aranĝon kiel oportune.</p><

Roger Zelazny

To Spin Is Miracle Cat

Stefan Zweig

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

Ghassan Zaqtan

33 poems

Собрание переводов на английский стихотворений Гасана Зактана размещенных на сайте poemhunter.com<

Yigal Zur

Death in Shangri-La

Dotan Naor

Perfect for fans of Nelson DeMille and Daniel Silva Ex-Israeli operative turned private investigator, Dotan Naor—to settle a bet—agrees to locate the missing son of former acquaintance, now ruthless Israeli arms merchant, Willy Mizrachi. Willy, who does not hesitate to sell killing machines to the most heinous players in the world, is desperate to find his only son, Itiel, who has headed to an ashram in the Himalayas. The Himalayas are also host to groups of young Israelis who have completed their mandatory military service—a sort of rite of passage. Now, those innocent kids are being hunted down by violent terrorists. India and the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan is familiar territory to Dotan, as he searches for Itiel and for the source of these heinous attacks on Israeli youth. Unwilling to leave this quest in the hands of Dotan, Willy also travels to India, where he is murdered in Delhi, triggering international repercussions capable of ripping the world apart at one of its most dangerous flashpoints. Nothing is as it seems in this region of the world. Betrayal reigns everywhere. But love, in its purest form, does manage to shine through in this story of brutal international corruption.<

Arno B Zimmer

Death Comes to the Torpedo Factory

In “Death Comes To The Torpedo Factory”, World War II has been over for years and an old Torpedo Factory is now used to store government documents – including classified records from the campaign against Nazi Germany. In 1971, a lowly clerk stumbles upon a file with explosive photographs that, if made public, could ruin a prominent local family. When the photographs disappear, the hunt for them attracts a motley assortment of characters – including a former German intelligence agent and an old school gumshoe – with deadly consequences.<

Simone Zelitch

Judenstaat

Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat’s history from the time of its founding to the present. She is haunted by the ghost of her dead husband, Hans, a Saxon, shot by a sniper as he conducted the National Symphony. With the grief always fresh, Judit lives a half-life, until confronted by a mysterious, flesh-and-blood ghost from her past who leaves her controversial footage on one of Judenstaat’s founding fathers—and a note:<

Sofka Zinovieff

Putney

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior. A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an artistic and prosperous district in southwest London, the musical wunderkind is introduced to Edmund’s beautiful activist wife Ellie, his aloof son Theo, and his nine-year old daughter Daphne, who quickly becomes Ralph’s muse. Ralph showers Daphne with tokens of his affection – clandestine gifts and secret notes. In a home that is exciting but often lonely, Daphne finds Ralph to be a dazzling companion. Their bond remains strong even after Ralph becomes a husband and father, and though Ralph worships Daphne, he does not touch her. But in the summer of 1976, when Ralph accompanies thirteen-year-old Daphne alone to meet her parents in Greece, their relationship intensifies irrevocably. One person knows of their passionate trysts: Daphne’s best friend Jane, whose awe of the intoxicating Greenslay family ensures her silence. Forty years later Daphne is back in London. After years lost to decadence and drug abuse, she is struggling to create a normal, stable life for herself and her adolescent daughter. When circumstances bring her back in touch with her long-lost friend, Jane, their reunion inevitably turns to Ralph, now a world-famous musician also living in the city. Daphne’s recollections of her childhood and her growing anxiety over her own young daughter eventually lead to an explosive realization that propels her to confront Ralph and their years spent together. Masterfully told from three diverse viewpoints – victim, perpetrator, and witness – Putney is a subtle and enormously powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.<

Helen Zuman

Mating in Captivity: A Memoir

When recent Harvard grad Helen Zuman moved to Zendik Farm in 1999, she was thrilled to discover that the Zendiks used go-betweens to arrange sexual assignations, or “dates,” in cozy shacks just big enough for a double bed and a nightstand. Here, it seemed, she could learn an honest version of the mating dance—and form a union free of “Deathculture” lies. No one spoke the truth: Arol, the Farm’s matriarch, crushed any love that threatened her hold on her followers’ hearts. An intimate look at a transformative cult journey, Mating in Captivity shows how stories can trap us and free us, how miracles rise out of crisis, how coercion feeds on forsaken self-trust.<

Mikhail Zhirohov

The Khazars: A Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th-11th Centuries AD

The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their aristocratic and military elites converted to Judaism, creating what would be territorially the largest Jewish-ruled state in world history. They became significant allies of the Byzantine Empire, blocking the advance of Islam north of the Caucasus Mountains for several hundred years. They also achieved a remarkable level of metal-working technology, and their military elite wore forms of iron plate armour that would not be seen in Western Europe until the 14th century. The Khazar state provided the foundations upon which medieval Russia and modern Ukraine were built. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is a fascinating study into the armies, organisation, armour, weapons and fortifications of the Khazars.<

Boris Zubry

The Jewish Nation of Mongols

The Mongol nation that used to rule a half of the world for about five hundred years is on decline for the last couple hundred years. The old prophecy states that, when everything is just right, someone of the different blood would come and save the nation from the financial disaster. A new archeological dig of the burial from the time when Mongols roamed the world presents the last resting place of Batu Khan — the conqueror of Eastern Europe. There is a diary written by Batu Khan that hints that Khazars — the Jews of the Central Asia were completely integrated into Mongol society. More, many, including Batu Khan himself, were married to the Jews for generations, thus they were Jews more often than the Mongols. Mongols could be another lost Jewish tribe and the nation was — The Jewish Nation of Mongols. Now, the Mongols have to fulfill the prophecy and find the person that would save the country. That takes them to the Jewish community of Williamsburg, NY.<

Arnold Zable

Cafe Scheherazade

A mesmerising novel about suffering and survival. It finds authority and powerful meaning in telling stories about the diaspora of the twentieth century: we hear of Moshe stalking the streets of Shanghai and Warsaw, of Laizer imprisoned in the Soviet city of Lvov, and of Zalman marooned in Vilna and Kobe.<

Amélie Wen Zhao

Blood Heir

Blood Heir Trilogy

This hot debut, perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and An Ember in the Ashes, is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the con man she must trust to clear her name for her father’s murder. In the Cyrilian Empire, Affinites are reviled. Their varied gifts to control the world around them are unnatural—dangerous. And Anastacya Mikhailov, the crown princess, has a terrifying secret. Her deadly Affinity to blood is her curse and the reason she has lived her life hidden behind palace walls. When Ana’s father, the emperor, is murdered, her world is shattered. Framed as his killer, Ana must flee the palace to save her life. And to clear her name, she must find her father’s murderer on her own. But the Cyrilia beyond the palace walls is far different from the one she thought she knew. Corruption rules the land, and a greater conspiracy is at work—one that threatens the very balance of her world. And there is only one person corrupt enough to help Ana get to its core: Ramson Quicktongue. A cunning crime lord of the Cyrilian underworld, Ramson has sinister plans—though he might have met his match in Ana. Because in this story, the princess might be the most dangerous player of all.<

Emma Zeth

The Lucky Prepper: A Gardener's Story of Surviving a Pandemic

What do you eat when the shops run out of food? Zoe loves teaching science, she loves her garden, and most of all she loves her quiet peaceful bungalow. Then at school, people start falling ill. The virus is airborne and highly infectious. It starts with flu symptoms, confusion and sleepiness, which worsen until one day they just don’t wake up. It decimates the population and leaves chaos in its wake. Now Zoe has to find a way to survive. Luckily, when the pandemic strikes, she already has a greenhouse full of vegetable seedlings, but not everyone around is as prepared. Can she avoid the people hunting for food: the ‘knockers’ who don’t always just knock? And will her strategy of stay in, hide and wait, be enough?<

Gregory Zuckerman

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

SUMMARY: In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall. Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing. He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn't sure how to do it. Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him. Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about. But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line. In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year's end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros's billion-dollar currency trade in 1992. Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move. Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn't nearly enough. Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O'Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street's titans--to make financial history.<

Howard Zinn

A people's history of the United States: 1492-present

SUMMARY: Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.<

Jane Ziegelman

97 Orchard

Jeffrey Zaslow

The Girls from Ames

Timothy Zahn

Outbound Flight

<p>It began as the ultimate voyage of discovery--only to become the stuff of lost Republic legend . . . and a dark chapter in Jedi history. Now, at last, acclaimed author Timothy Zahn returns to tell the whole extraordinary story of the remarkable--and doomed--Outbound Flight Project.<br><br>The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth petitions the Senate for support of a singularly ambitious undertaking. Six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and fifty thousand men, women, and children will embark--aboard a gargantuan vessel, equipped for years of travel--on a mission to contact intelligent life and colonize undiscovered worlds beyond the known galaxy. The government bureaucracy threatens to scuttle the expedition before it can even start--until Master C'baoth foils a murderous conspiracy plot, winning him the political capital he needs to set in motion the dream of Outbound Flight.<br><br>Or so it would seem. For unknown to the famed Jedi Master, the...</p><

Timothy Zahn

Scoundrels: Star Wars

Timothy Zahn

Allegiance

<p>Never before has the incendiary mix of action, politics, and intrigue that has become Timothy Zahn's trademark, been mmore evident that in this new Star Wars epic. On the heels of the stunning events chronicled in Star Wars: A New Hope, the newly minted heroes of the Rebellion--fledgling Jedi Luke Skywalker, smuggler turned reluctant freedom-fighter Han Solo, and Princess Leia Organa, a bold leader with a world to avenge--must face the harsh realities of the cataclysmic conflict into which they have so bravely plunged. From this point forward, legends will grow, treachery will abound, and lives will be irrevocably altered, in the long, hard fight to counter the fist of tyranny and restore hope to a galaxy too long in darkness. <br><br>The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance was a decisive blow against the Empire, but Palpatine and his monstrous enforcer, Darth Vader, are no less of a threat. The brutal extermination of Alderaan not only demonstrated the...<

Timothy Zahn

Star Wars 312 - The Hand of Thrawn I - Specter of the Past

<p>Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn makes his triumphant return to the Star Wars(r) universe in this first of an epic new two-volume series in which the New Republic must face its most dangerous enemy yet--a dead Imperial warlord.<br><br>The Empire stands at the brink of total collapse. But they have saved their most heinous plan for last. First a plot is hatched that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of genocide and civil war. Then comes the shocking news that Grand Admiral Thrawn--the most cunning and ruthless warlord in history--has apparently returned from the dead to lead the Empire to a long-prophesied victory. Facing incredible odds, Han and Leia begin a desperate race against time to prevent the New Republic from unraveling in the face of two inexplicable threats--one from within and one from without. Meanwhile, Luke teams up with Mara Jade, using the Force to track down a mysterious pirate ship with a crew of clones. Yet, perhaps most dangerous of all,...</p><

Timothy Zahn

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