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The Ecco/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections: Southern Cross the Dog by Bill Cheng Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford Together Tea by Marjan Kamali The Son by Philipp Meyer The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer Tampa by Alissa Nutting Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda In The Son—an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land—Philipp Meyer maps the legacy of violence in the American west and presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries. The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells (heralded as "wonderful" by John Irving) beautifully wrestles with the impossibility of "what could be" as a woman with nowhere left to turn undergoes radical electroshock therapy. In Together Tea, we meet a loving mother who is determined to make her daughter''s life work out: one Excel spreadsheet at a time. The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin (which Alice Sebold called "100% Grade-A storytelling") examine the ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In the "beautifully written and epic" (Nathan Englander) Southern Cross the Dog, three childhood friends cope with the devastating aftermath of the Great Flood of 1927 in Mississippi. Visitation Street is "urban opera writ large" (Dennis Lehane); the novel explores the reactions of a blue-collar community after a teenaged girl mysteriously disappears from the banks of their rough-hewn waterfront. And in Tampa, we inhabit the mind of Celeste—a smoldering 26-year-old middle school teacher who unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of her 14-year-old student.

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Recompiles the Treasury Department''s 1960s-era resource on organized crime in America, a volume that collected every then-known facet of information pertaining to more than eight hundred master criminals, including Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Vinny Gigante. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Up-to-date coverage of today’s language Offers over 40,000 entries and 70,000 translations Easy-to-use format Contains commonly used phrases and idioms Main irregular verb forms given Includes most common abbreviations, acronyms, and geographic names Pronunciations for English and Portuguese shown in the International Phonetic Alphabet

The first edition of the Collins Chinese Gem covers all the words and phrases learners of Chinese and English will need to know in a handy, user-friendly format.

Helps students to test their knowledge and gain crucial exam practice.

This full color highly illustrated and engaging guide presents a world of possibility in your pocket. Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this compact volume explains the origins, history and symbolism of the flags of over 200 countries. Containing fascinating facts as to why certain colors and images are used to reflect a country, this book is organized by geographic region to show inter-relation of the flags of neighboring countries, includes full-color illustrations of national and sub-national flags and a glossary of flag terminology.

The essential two-in-one reference for the learner of German: an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly grammar in one handy volume. With over 83,000 references and 112,000 translations, this dictionary is designed to give up-to-date coverage in a practical, user-friendly format. The Collins German Dictionary Plus Grammar will help the user understand the language of the German media and contemporary literature, and includes business and computing terms. It also features special entries on aspects of German life and culture. The grammar section is a comprehensive guide, a perfect complement to the dictionary with its clear, easy-to-use layout. It presents detailed examples and translations to help students to understand German grammar easily.

When a twelve-year-old orphan comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to the aunt and unloved members of the community.

For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners'' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this memorizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast-against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.

With over 60,000 references and 80,000 translations, this new edition of Collins Gem Latin Dictionary provides extensive coverage of Latin and English and offers in–depth treatment of all the vocabulary students need to take them through their exams. Extensive coverage of exam vocabulary Clear, attractive typography for quick and easy access