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Dennis Ross has been a participant in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East for nearly thirty years. In Doomed to Succeed, he takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president's attitudes toward Israel and the region, and the events that drove the policies and led to a shift in approach.

A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish. Swim along with Mr. Fish as he shows his friends just how much he loves them.

A true account of seven Danish teens who dared to fight the Nazi war machine. Phil Hoose interweaves his own narrative with the recollections of Knud Pedersen himself.

Is globalization a recipe for war? In the nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of commerce would usher in prosperity and peace, but these dreams were dashed by imperial squabbles, the carnage of 1914-18, and the protectionism, depression, and conflict that followed. In the wake of World War II, the globalists tried again.

David Duchovny's richly drawn Bucky F*cking Dent is a story of the bond between fathers and sons, Yankee fans and the Fenway faithful, and grapples with the urgent need to find our story in an age of irony and artifice. Bucky F*cking Dent is a singulartale that brims with the hilarity, poignance, and profound solitude of modern life.

With titles as varied as "On Lice" to "On Sleeping in Theatres" and "Motherhood and Stools (The Furniture Kind)," this book includes essays that are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between.

Ho ho ho! Time to turn that frowny pout into a cheery shout! Mr. Fish is trying to find the perfect presents for his friends, but he just isn't having any luck. He's so busy shopping for everyone that he almost forgets the true meaning of the holidays - surrounding yourself with those you love.

The whole town looks forward to the Christmas tree lighting, but this year, a blizzard has struck. The snow falls heavily, and soon, Tractor Mac and his pals are snowed in at the barn. Farmer Bill and Sibley get stuck in the blizzard and it looks like the ceremony will have to be called off, Tractor Mac saves them and the whole holiday celebration.

Sure, everyone loves Bacon-until Bacon's popularity goes right to his head. He's so busy soaking up the attention from his fans, that he soon forgets the important things in life, like friendship and family. How will things end for our deliciously crispy hero?

The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, the author straddles these two perspectives to link his family's dramatic story to Italy's north-south divide, its quest for a unifying language, and its passion for art, food, and family.

Mr. Fish wants to help his friend Ms. Clam when she loses her pearl, but though he's fast as a sailfish, as smart as a dolphin, and as strong as a shark, Mr. Fish is scared of the dark! Very young children will swim along with Mr. Fish as he journeys deep into the ocean to new and mysterious places.

At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed.

When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total.

The Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. Why don't we know more? Who were they, really? This book retrieves their history by piecing together important discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, and more.

John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. This title collects 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969.

Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. What was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar - and disturbing - story. This autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery.

Brings together essays published over the course of several decades (many from The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books) that reflect Janet Malcolm's preoccupation with artists and their work. Her subjects are painters, photographers, writers, and critics.

Mr Fish is nervously awaiting his first day of school, and he frets about not knowing how to write his name, how to draw shapes, and how to do maths - until he's reassured that school is the perfect place to learn how to master all of these new skills.

Hemlock Grove is now a 13-part series available on Netflix. An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares.

We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. Drawing on the history of literacy - from scroll to codex, scribes to printing presses, SMS to social media, this book focuses on the science of how various forms of storytelling work on the human brain, and on the practical value of literacy in real-world situations.

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything. A Caldecott Honor Book.

Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. In this title, the author sets out to discover the source of our attraction to the gruesome, drawing on the findings of biologists, sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and artists.

"I went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from. I traveled through a country of hills and pine groves that gave way to woodlands, where swirls of smoke hovered over the roofs of houses, as if they were on fire, for they were chimneyless cabins; I crossed districts of fields and lakes. It was so interesting to be moving, to give the horses their rein, and wait until, in the next valley, a village slowly appeared, or a park with the white spot of a manor in it. And always we were barked at by a dog, assiduous in its duty. That was the beginning of the century; this is its . I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night-I don't know where it came from-in a pre-dawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." --Road-Side Dog

The world already knows Meg and Charles Wallace Murry, Calvin O'Keefe, and the three MrsNWho, Whatsit, and WhichNthe memorable and wonderful characters who fight off a dark force and save the universe in the Newbery award-winning classic. But in 50 years of publication, the book has never been illustrated. Now, Larson takes the classic story to a new level.

Describes the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing.

Contains a selection of poems from the poet's career.

It's Moscow, 2028. A scream, a moan, and a death rattle slowly pull Andrei Danilovich Komiaga out of his drunken stupor. But wait - that's just his ringtone. So begins another day in the life of an oprichnik, one of the czar's most trusted courtiers - and one of the country's most feared men.

In "Those Nights," the author writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Exploring their nexus, this book examines this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours.

When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. This narrative is about his relationship to Sifnos, writing with warmth about its residents and the house he bought in a hilltop farm village.

Neutrinos may hold the secrets to the nature of antimatter and what the universe was like just seconds after the big bang, but they are extremely elusive and difficult to pin down. The author takes us on a journey into the shadowy world of neutrinos and the lives of those who chase them.