“mark z danielewski”

Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lie vre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply movi... More

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an o... More

A pastiche of Joyce and Beckett, with heapings of Derrida's "Glas" and Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" thrown in for good measure, Danielewski's follow-up to "House of Leaves" is a similarly dizzying tour of the modernist and postmodernist heights--and a similarly impressive tour de force.Sa... More

The subprime financial crisis is the decade's #1 financial story. What happened? How did it occur? And how can we prevent similar crises from happening again? Dr. Mark Zandi answers all these critical questions - systematically, carefully, and in plain English. Zandi begins with a fast-paced "histor... More

"Books for the smallest room in the house..."That generate BIG sales It's clear--people everywhere are sitting and solving That's why more than 110,000 copies of this amazing series have nearly jumped out of stores. With their amusing shape, great content, and popular price, these compilations are ... More

Since 1972, BOGGLE has been a family favorite, and this twist on the game provides fans of the wildly popular "Sit & Solve(R)" series with a heap of word-finding fun. Solvers are given just a few letters on a 4x4 BOGGLE board, as well as a list of words to find. Using ordinary BOGGLE rules (they can... More

Now in paperback--the first book in an enthralling new series filled with quirky characters, clever charms, potions, and spells, to uncover the mystery a--who is Septimus Heap? Includes a Q&A with Sage and a sneek-peek at Book Two. Illustrations.The Magyk Begins Here Septimus Heap, the seventh son o... More

As apprentice to ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand, Septimus Heap is learning the fine arts of Conjurations, Charms, and other Magyk, while Jenna is adapting to life as the Princess. But they soon realize there is something sinister at work in the second book of the series.It's been a year sinc... More