The Beginners

Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftness Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. “How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that’s not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this bridge, and that is why Anna found it so difficult to cross.” Anne Serre offers here, in her third book in English, her most direct novel to date. The Beginners is unpredictable, sensual, exhilarating, oddly moral, perverse, absurd—and unforgettable.

Full of useful suggestions, insights and solutions for newcomers, this book features stories by AA members about what helped them get sober and successfully navigate early sobriety.

The Beginner’s Bible® has been a favorite with young children and their parents since its release in 1989 with over 25 million products sold. This retelling of the story of Daniel and the Lions shows young readers how Daniel bravely stood up for his faith and faced a den of lions with God’s protection. Featuring vibrant art from the beloved The Beginner’s Bible, this book is great for children learning to read. This My First I Can Read!™ book, with basic language, word repetition, and great illustrations, is perfect for shared reading with a child. XX

The bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like now offers a thought-provoking, playful investigation into the transformative joys that come with starting something new, no matter one's age.

The last two decades have witnessed a revolution in the realm of typography, with the virtual disappearance of hot-lead typesetting in favor of the so-called digital typesetting. The principle behind the new technology is simple: imagine a very fine mesh superimposed on a sheet of paper. Digital typesetting consists in darkening the appropriate pixels (tiny squares) of this mesh, in patterns corresponding to each character and symbol of the text being set. The actual darkening is done by some printing device, say a laser printer or phototypesetter, which must be told exactly where the ink should go. Since the mesh is very fine-the dashes surrounding this sentence are some six pixels thick, and more than 200 pixels long-the printer can only be controlled by a computer program, which takes a "high-level" description of the page in terms of text, fonts, and formatting commands, and digests all of that into "low-level" commands for the printer. TEX is such a program, created by Donald E. Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University.

95 Timeless Children's Stories -- Including These: - A Big Picnic (Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand) - Long and Strong (Samson) - Best Friends (David and Jonathan) - Trumpets and Torches (Gideon) - The Most Special Baby (Jesus is Born) - Fish for Breakfast (With the Risen Jesus) - A Secret Message (Joseph and Pharaoh's Dreams) - A Basket Boat (The Baby Moses) - Wind and Fire (The Day of Pentecost) - Money in a Fish (Peter and the Taxes) - The Chariot of Fire (Elijah and Elisha) - Spending the Night with Lions (Daniel's Faithfulness) - Lost! (Jesus in the Temple) - Helpers and Friends (Jesus Calls His Disciples) - Inside a Fish (Jonah) - A Room on the Roof (Elisha and the Shunemite Woman) - The Angel's Secret (Gabriel Visits Mary) - Surprise (The Resurrection)

Guaranteed the fastest and easiest way to learn your software, this book takes the mystery out of learning Windows 95. It is expertly written in simple non-technical lessons with clear illustrations that show you exactly what you should see on your screen. Information boxes provide shortcuts, hints, and tips. Features an Ota-bind spine that allows the book to lay flat.

The beloved bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron grew up fending off a sister who constantly wanted to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, an outspoken, independent young woman, she’s like a breath of fresh air. He marries her without hesitation, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. Aaron works at his family’s vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy’s unexpected appearances from the dead—in their house, on the roadway, in the market—help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually, Aaron discovers that maybe for this beginner there is indeed a way to say goodbye.