About 145 million years ago, a new―and final―era began in the reign of dinosaurs. Join your friendly prehistoric fish-guide on a tour of the Cretaceous period, from the heyday of dinosaurs to their extinction.

Jack Sparks died while writing this book. It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed. Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account. Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days...

In the aftermath of the war, Iona "Sully" Sullivan has lost everything, her job, her friends, her fiancé and even her magic. But, when an old friend shows up on her doorstep, offering her the chance to undo one of her long litany of mistakes, there is still enough of the old Sully left to get her on the first boat to Hong Kong. A stranger in a strange land, Sully must navigate alien customs, werebear chefs, the blossoming criminal underworld, religious...

Domenic Stansberry's award-winning novel tells the story of Niccolo Jones, a broken-down man plagued by his obsession with his brother Joe's ex-wife Marie. Set in the old Italian neighborhood of North Beach in San Francisco, the novel flashes back and forth between their childhood days in the 1950s and events thirty years later. The kids are adults now, and everything has changed.   Nick's story begins when Joe is murdered, igniting in Nick an unquenchable...

A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life The Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his beloved store filled with more than seventy years of...

A theatre play that analyzes the events that led the man who was the last defensive bastion of Christianity to his death: a continuous succession of envies, palace intrigues, and betrayals that led the world to a crossroad. Although it can be read like a novel, its ultimate aim is to be performed and, as in every good play, we can imagine the world it represents, almost a historical novel, but also something else.

This history of the Sioux in the 19th century ranges from its forced migration to the reservation to the Wounded Knee Massacre. First published in 1963, Robert M. Utley's classic study of the Sioux Nation was a landmark achievement in Native American historical research. The St. Louis Dispatch called it "by far the best treatment of the complex and controversial relationship between the Sioux and their conquerors yet presented and should be must...

National Book Critics Circle Award—winning author Geoff Dyer-"one of our greatest living critics" (New York Magazine)-presents an extended meditation on the late styles and last works of some of the world's most gifted and celebrated people. Much attention has been paid to so-called late style- but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating and ingeniously structured investigation,...

Dennis Hopper, ("Easy Rider") stars as a low level mob man who dreams of changing his life and winds up trying to help a drug-addicted porn queen become a legitimate actress.