From the revered New York Times bestselling author comes a touching, insightful, and humorous memoir of an unlikely racewalker and world traveler

The bear is on the prowl in many different guises.  He may be the master thief stealing into Graceland, an intense young passenger experimenting in terror, or a...more

In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller—...more

Keller's a hit man. For years now he's had places to go and people to kill. But enough is enough. He's got money in the bank and just one last job standing ...more

Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and ...more

Cold War superspy evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s? Frozen...more

It's a jungle out there. Literally. At least for evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of...more

The Cold War's boiling over. Global tensions are near the breaking point. So what's the perfect assignment for a super-spy who hasn't slept since the Korean conflict? A ...more

The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol—not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a ...more

Certain people pretend to tell us what birth and death are like: a mother, for instance, has her point of view about birth; a doctor, a religious, have their points of view ...more

BIBLIOGRAPHIC ReSeARCH IN COMPOSITION STUDIeS is a student-friendly guide to how knowledge is constructed and disseminated in composition studies, as well as a thorough ...more

"13 Lucky Steps to Writing a Research Paper" walks you through the process of choosing, researching, and writing about a topic in just - you guessed it - thirteen painless ...more

BUILDING GeNRe KNOWLeDGe traces the writing of four multilingual graduate students in engineering and computer sciences over time, offering a window into the writers' ...more

ARGUMeNT ONLINe! can be implemented as a collateral resource for convential classroom instructors who are teaching critical thinking and argument/research skills, and it can ...more

Get it written right now with this unique guide to solving the most common problems of crafting nonfiction writing Contrary to popular belief, good writers are made, not ...more

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Dune--considered the greatest science fiction novel of all time--was turned down by every single NYC publisher until it was finally published by a small press. Trying to sell ...more