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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)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *; Journey to Star Wars:The Force Awakens ';Star Wars: Aftermath [reveals] what happened after the events of 1983's Return of the Jedi. It turns out, there's more than just the Empire for the good guys to worry about.'The Hollywood Reporter As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliancenow a fledgling New Republicpresses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but he's taken captive before he can report back to the New Republic leaders. Meanwhile, on the planet's surface, former rebel fighter Norra Wexley has returned to her native worldwar weary, ready to reunite with her estranged son, and eager to build a new life in some distant place. But when Norra intercepts Wedge Antilles's urgent distress call, she realizes her time as a freedom fighter is not yet over. What she doesn't know is just how close the enemy isor how decisive and dangerous her new mission will be. Determined to preserve the Empire's power, the surviving Imperial elite are converging on Akiva for a top-secret emergency summitto consolidate their forces and rally for a counterstrike. But they haven't reckoned on Norra and her newfound alliesher technical-genius son, a Zabrak bounty hunter, and a reprobate Imperial defectorwho are prepared to do whatever they must to end the Empire's oppressive reign once and for all.Praise for Aftermath ';The Force is strong with Star Wars: Aftermath.'Alternative Nation ';The Star Wars universe is fresh and new again, and just as rich and mysterious as it always was.'Den of Geek';[Chuck] Wendig neatly captures the current states of the Empire and Rebel Alliance and does so through flawed, real, and nuanced characters. His writing gets you up close and personal. . . . Wendig does wonders with dialogue and voice and carving out space for everyone to breathe. Aftermath is a strong foot forward into unexplored territory and puts down just enough foundation that you can start picturing the Resistance and First Order of The Force Awakens taking shape.'Nerdist ';If the opening chapter of the Wendig's Aftermath trilogy is any indication, the ';Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens' will be every bit as exciting as the movie.'New York Daily News ';A wonderful Star Wars adventure by a gifted author.'SF Book Reviews