The astonishing international bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist''s own stroke led to enlightenment. On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left ...
Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995. But before they reached the summit, disaster struck. A few days later, Simon staggered into Base Camp, exhausted and frostbitten, to tell their non-climbing ...
From the author of The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell''''s international bestseller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a revolution in the understanding of the mind. An art expert sees a ten-million-dollar sculpture and instantly spots it''''s a fake. A marriage analyst knows within minutes ...
Marion and Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun and British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. ...
Possibly the most anticipated "Star Wars" movie of all time, "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith" at last tells the tale of how the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, the most feared villain in the galaxy. Our novel includes material not in the movie, based on discussions with George ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. \''Fifteen men on the dead man\''s chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\'' Upon finding a map in his parents\'' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the ...
The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago. But when his most trusted fighter is killed—orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate—Wrath must put ...
2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn''t burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and now-indestructible. These moving, relatable poems encourage resilience ...
