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NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER *;Democratic presidential candidateJoe Biden, the author ofPromise Me, Dad,tellsthe story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama's beloved, influential vice president. ';I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.'Joe Biden Vice President Joe Biden has both witnessed and participated in a momentous epoch of American history. In Promises to Keep, Joe Biden reveals what these experiences taught him about himself, his colleagues, and the institutions of government. With his customary candor and wit, Biden movingly recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic multigenerational household in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware; overcoming personal tragedy, life-threatening illness, and career setbacks; his relationships with presidents, with world leaders, and with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle; and his leadership of powerful Senate committees.Through these and other recollections, Biden shows us how the guiding principles he learned early in lifeto work to make people's lives better; to honor family and faith; to value persistence, candor, and honestyare the foundation on which he has based his life's work as husband, father, and public servant. Promises to Keep is an intimate series of reflections from a public servant who surmounted numerous challenges to become one of our most effective leaders and who refuses to be cynical about politics. It is also a stirring testament to the promise of the United States.Praise for Promises to Keep';A ripping good read . . . Biden is a master storyteller and has stories worth telling.'The Christian Science Monitor ';A compelling personal story.'The New York Times';Moving . . . [Biden's] response to tragedy and near death [is] both admirable and likable.'Salon

In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, anOutside magazine writer tells her storyof fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLEI'm running to forget, and to remember. For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased adventure around the world, reporting on extreme athletes who performed outlandish featswalking high lines a thousand feet off the ground without a harness, or running one hundred miles through the night. She wrote her stories by living them, until eventually life on the thin edge of risk began to seem normal. After she married, Katie and her husband vowed to raise their daughters to be adventurous, too, in the mountains and canyons of New Mexico. But when her father died of cancer, she was forced to confront her own mortality. His death was cataclysmic, unleashing a perfect storm of grief and anxiety. She and her father, an enigmatic photographer for National Geographic, had always been kindred spirits. He introduced her to the outdoors and took her camping and on bicycle trips and down rivers, and taught her to find solace and courage in the natural world. And it was he who encouraged her to run her first race when she was seven years old. Now nearly paralyzed by fear and terrified she was dying, too, she turned to the thing that had always made her feel most alive: running. Over the course of three tumultuous years, she ran alone through the wilderness, logging longer and longer distances, first a 50-kilometer ultramarathon, then 50 miles, then 100 kilometers. She ran to heal her grief, to outpace her worry that she wouldn't live to raise her own daughters. She ran to find strength in her weakness. She ran to remember and to forget. She ran to live. Ultrarunning tests the limits of human endurance over seemingly inhuman distances, and as she clocked miles across mesas and mountains, Katie learned to tolerate pain and discomfort, and face her fears of uncertainty, vulnerability, and even death itself. As she ran, she found herself peeling back the layers of her relationship with her father, discovering that much of what she thought she knew about him, and her own past, was wrong. Running Home is a memoir about the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our worldthe stories that hold us back, and the ones that set us free. Mesmerizing, transcendent, and deeply exhilarating, it is a book for anyone who has been knocked over by life, or feels the pull of something bigger and wilder within themselves. ';A beautiful work of searching remembrance and searing honesty . . . Katie Arnold is as gifted on the page as she is on the trail. Running Home will soon join such classics as Born to Run and Ultramarathon Man as quintessential reading of the genre.'Hampton Sides, author of On Desperate Ground and Ghost Soldiers

Lovers is pure Krantz, anintoxicating dance of love lost, stolen, and foundamong women and men who lure each other with potentcombinations of money, talent, ambition, andpassion. Chief among them is irresistible Gigi Orsini,the high-spirited, merry, adventurous creature whogrew up into enchanting womanhood in Scruples Two.Now Gigi is working as a copywriter in a new LosAngeles advertising agency, with her creativeteammate, David Melville, a brilliant youngart director who joins her in seeking newaccounts. The agency is headed by dashing Archie Rourke,humorous Byron Bernheim and the severely difficultbeauty, Victoria Frost, daughter of the famedMillicent Frost Caldwell who, with her husband AngusCaldwell, owns one of New York's largestadvertising agencies. Ben Winthrop, a proper Bostonian andan enormously successful mall builder, attempts tocapture Gigi's quicksilver affections, althoughhis fierce contenders for the same prize includeboth David Melville and the dominating film director,Zach Nevsky. Meanwhile, Billy Winthrop IkehornOrsini Elliott, the unforgettably impulsive heroineof Scruples, and her new husband,the great charmer, Spider Elliott, are busy withtheir own fascinating lives, as are Gigi's father,canny film producer Vito Orsini, and her bestfriend, the ravishing Sasha Nevsky, none of whom canbe forgotten from Scruples andScruples Two. Loverscompletes all the stories set in motion in thefirst two novels, yet it stands entirely on its ownas a slice of life in the exciting years of 1983and 1984.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER *; From the Pulitzer Prizewinning, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofOlive Kitteridgecomes a ';superb' (O: The Oprah Magazine) novel that ';confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice.' (The Atlantic Monthly)In the late 1950s, in a small New England town, Reverend Tyler Caskey has suffered a terrible loss and finds it hard to be the person he once was. He struggles to find the right words in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed in the wake of the family's tragedy. Tyler's usually patient and kind congregation now questions his leadership and propriety, and accusations are born out of anger and gossip. Then, in Tyler's darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his parish's humanityand his own will to endure the trials that sooner or later test us all.Praise forAbide With Me';Strout's greatly anticipated second novel . . . is an answered prayer.'Vanity Fair';Deeply moving . . . In one beautiful page after another, Strout captures the mysterious combinations of hope and sorrow. She sees all these wounded people with heartbreaking clarity, but she has managed to write a story that cradles them in understanding and that, somehow, seems like a foretaste of salvation.'The Washington Post';Graceful and moving . . . The pacing of Strout's deeply felt fiction about the distance between parents and children gives her work an addictive quality.'People(four stars)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE *;Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.Praise for Into the Forest';[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.'San Francisco Chronicle';A work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism,Into the Forestis both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.'Riane Eisler, author ofThe Chalice and the Blade';From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's1984.'Publishers Weekly(starred review)';Beautifully written.'Kirkus Reviews';This beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to one's own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.'Carol Saline, co-author ofSisters';Jean Hegland's sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.'John Keeble, author ofYellowfish

';Readers with a penchant for both Patrick O'Brian and Anne McCaffrey may have found their perfect match. Naomi Novik beautifully renders an 1800s Europe in which naval buffs and dragon lovers will be keen to immerse themselves.'Alan Dean Foster, author of the Pip & Flinx seriesWhen Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargoan unhatched dragon' s eggCapt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain's Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte's invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for Napoleon, has fallen into British handsand an angry Chinese delegation vows to reclaim the remarkable beast. But Laurence refuses to cooperate. Facing the gallows for his defiance, Laurence has no choice but to accompany Temeraire back to the Far Easta long voyage fraught with peril, intrigue, and the untold terrors of the deep. Yet once the pair reaches the court of the Chinese emperor, even more shocking discoveries and darker dangers await.

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, with an introduction and essays by the feminist activist herself';A fearless book full of passion, resolute perspective, and unbiased hope for the future.'Janelle Mone For decadesand especially now, in these times of crisispeople around the world have found guidance, humor, and unity in Gloria Steinem's gift for creating quotes that offer hope and inspire action. From her early days as a journalist and feminist activist, Steinem's words have helped generations to empower themselves and work together. Covering topics from relationships (';Many are looking for the right person. Too few are trying to be the right person.') to the patriarchy (';Men are liked better when they win. Women are liked better when they lose. This is how the patriarchy is enforced every day.') and activism (';Revolutions, like trees, grow from the bottom up.'), this is the definitive collection ofSteinem's words on what matters most. Steinem sees quotes as ';the poetry of everyday life,' so she also has included a few favorites from friends, including bell hooks, Flo Kennedy, and Michelle Obama, in this book that will make you want to laugh, march, and create some quotes of your own. In fact, at the end of the book, there's a special space for readers to add their own quotes and others they've found inspiring. The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off! is both timeless and timely. It is a gift of hope fromSteinemto readers, and a book to share with friends.