It is true what they say about some true stories that are stranger than fiction and that the events that they relate are sometimes more surprising than the most active imagination can fabricate for a fictitious story. For example, a Rhesus monkey demonstrating an intelligence found to be equivalent to that of ... read more

From Booklist
One of the most well known of the current crop of professional poker players, Hellmuth is the type you love to hate–he’s a sore loser and a boastful winner, but he’s fun to watch. Plus, he wins a lot. His first book, Play Poker like the ... read more

“Three erotic tales inspired by the hot, hit Showtime series. A new volume of hot fiction inspired by the man who delivered the erotic classics 9 1/2 Weeks, Two Moon Junction, and Wild Orchid Zalman King’s sensational and groundbreaking Red Shoe Diaries has elegantly explored the most ... read more

From Publishers Weekly
In October 1946, philosopher Karl Popper arrived at Cambridge to lecture at a seminar hosted by his legendary colleague Ludwig Wittgenstein. It did not go well: the men began arguing, and eventually, Wittgenstein began waving a fire poker toward Popper. It lasted scarcely 10 minutes, ... read more

Review
Short story by Bret Harte, first published in the magazine Overland Monthly in 1869, later published in the collection The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870); it has become a minor classic of American literature. One of the best examples of Harte’s local-color fiction, this ... read more

excerpt from the book…The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing,into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood,with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of culturedparents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility;devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving,Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable success, ... read more

From Publishers Weekly
The authors, both professional poker players and writers, offer the definitive history of a tournament that has grown from humble beginnings in 1970, with a mere eight players, into a cultural phenomenon with over 2,500 entrants and millions of dollars in prize money. In the ... read more

In this rousing OZ adventure Scarecrow goes off in search of his past. Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion search for him, eventually meeting with a knight, Sir Hokus, the Doubtful Dromedary and the Comfortable Camel. Scarecrow discovers that, in a previous incarnation, he was human! He had been the King of the Silver ... read more

Review
Short story by Bret Harte, first published in the magazine Overland Monthly in 1869, later published in the collection The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870); it has become a minor classic of American literature. One of the best examples of Harte’s local-color fiction, this ... read more

The story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest poker player of all time, is one for the ages. It’s a story of guts and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived whippings, gun fights, stabbings, mobsters (the real-life ones ... read more