Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle (Hardcover)

by Marc Gonsalves (Author), Tom Howes (Author), Keith Stansell (Author), Gary Brozek (Author)

Out of Captivity

On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American civilian contractors—Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, and Tom Howes—crash-landed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they emerged from the plane bloodied and injured as gunfire rained down around them. As of that moment they were prisoners of the FARC, a Colombian terrorist and Marxist rebel organization. In an instant they had become American captives in Colombia’s volatile and ongoing conflict, which has lasted for almost fifty years.

In Out of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes recount for the first time their amazing tale of survival, friendship, and, ultimately, rescue, tracing their five and a half years as hostages of the FARC. Their story takes you inside one of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations, going behind enemy lines with vivid and haunting imagery. Their words conjure a reality that few people have ever encountered—from sleeping on beds literally carved out of the jungle to escaping Colombian military air strikes under the cover of darkness to being bound with steel chains by their captors. Describing backbreaking starvation marches and forced isolation, the authors chronicle their confrontations and interactions with the FARC guerrilla soldiers—a motley crew of brainwashed, idealistic teenagers and seasoned vet-erans who’ve been around long enough to realize that the only way out of the FARC is in a body bag.

Though the physical punishments their bodies endured were unrelenting, the psychological battles they waged were the ultimate test of their resolve. With candid detail, Gonsalves, Stansell, and Howes relate the perilous mental struggles they each experienced, as they grappled with feelings of guilt, fear, and anxiety for the families and lives they’d left behind. Exposing the transformative power of captivity, they show how they turned these fears into strengths, using their memories and their families, their pasts and their futures, to motivate them in their quest for survival.

Despite the odds and the conditions, despite the chains and the silence, and despite the often tense relationships they experienced with their fellow Colombian hostages, they had one another, forging a bond that allowed them to cope with the horrific conditions of their confinement. This brotherhood enabled them to persevere through the worst that the FARC threw at them while always reminding them of their ultimate goal: freedom.

A harrowing account of one of the longest civilian hostage crises in United States history, Out of Captivity is a remarkable and compelling exploration of how far three Americans were willing to go as they fought to stay alive for themselves, their families, and one another.

About the Author

Marc Gonsalves is a former member of the United States Air Force who worked as a civilian military contractor for four years before the crash. He has a daughter, Destiney, and two stepsons, Cody and Joey. He lives in Connecticut.

The Gabriel Method: The Revolutionary DIET-FREE Way to Totally Transform Your Body (Paperback)

by Jon Gabriel (Author)

The Gabriel Method

Mental Causes of Obesity

Most weight-loss programs place minimal attention on the mind-body connection, and this is where they fall short. Nothing is more important than understanding the way the mind and body are communicating with each other, especially when it comes to stress.

This is why feeling safe, and understanding and addressing mental and emotional stress is of paramount importance when you want to lose weight.

Keep in mind that when Jessie’s body got the message “Thin = Safe,” even giving him the richest, all-you-can-eat, optimal nutrition couldn’t make him any fatter because his body didn’t want to be fatter. No amount of raw calories could convince him of that. And when his body wanted to be fat because Fat = Safe, it was easy for him to put on weight.

Human lives tend to be more complicated than Jessie’s, but not as far as our bodies are concerned. Every time you have mental or emotional stress, it generates chemical changes in your body — chemistry that activates ancient survival programs inside us. But which program is it going to activate? Is it going to activate the “Buddy’s chasing me” / thin program, or is it going to activate the famine program? Because if it activates the “Buddy program,” it will make your body want to be thin, and if it activates the famine program, it will make your body want to be fat.

This explains why the same superficial stress makes some people put on weight and some people lose it. In an abusive, emotional situation, one person may put on weight as a shield, while another person will shed weight in preparation for running away. It’s all very primal. It’s all a result of basic instincts. And it’s these basic instincts that have kept your body locked into an unacceptable weight situation. But the facts also provide your key to liberation.

If you don’t address this point of mental and emotional fatcausing stress, any type of eating or behavior modification you make will yield marginal results at best. Not only that, it will be exhausting and extremely frustrating. It will feel like you’re driving a car with the emergency break on.

But when you do get this point right and feel safe, and your body is no longer interpreting the stresses in your life as a type of famine or harsh weather, your body will no longer want to be fat. Weight loss is not only easy, IT’S INEVITABLE. If your body wants to be thin, there is nothing you can do to stop it. Your metabolism will speed up, you will be less hungry, you will crave healthier foods, and you will become very efficient at burning fat.

So let’s take a look at some of the most common forms of mental and emotional stress that may be activating your body’s FAT Programs, and then examine what you can do to eliminate them:

Mental Starvation: Lack — The Modern Day Famine

It makes sense that our brains could interpret any mental or emotional stress that originates from a feeling of lack as a kind of starvation. In a sense, any lack is a form of starvation. Whether you feel that you don’t have enough money, love, attention, or meaning in your life, the feeling is lack — not enough of something.

Our brain takes this message of lack and has to translate it into physical terms. The most crucial type of lack that the most primitive part of the brain understands is the physical lack of food, because food and water were the primary things our ancestors could be lacking. So, as a result, the brain can interpret any form of mental, emotional, or even spiritual lack as a lack of food.

The Daily Grind

What we commonly think of as stress — the frantic and sometimes desperate ongoing struggle to make ends meet and get ahead in life — can sometimes trick your body into thinking that it must be a time of famine, so it activates the FAT Programs.

This chronic stress can very easily mimic the chemical signals that are created when we are starving; chronic stress is alarming but not immediately life threatening. It’s not like a tiger chasing you, for example, so running away won’t necessarily make it better. It’s more like a famine or a cold winter: it’s always there and you just have to take it — grin and bear it.

Interestingly, famine and the daily grind have something in common. Your body perceives them both as chronic, low-level threats to your long-term survival. When you don’t eat enough every day, day in and day out, you’re not going to drop dead on any one day from starvation. But over time, if left unchecked, you could starve to death.

In the same way, in the modern day famine, if you’re late for work on any given day, nothing is going to happen. If you’re late every day, day after day, you might get fired. If you get fired, you might not be able to make ends meet. If you can’t make ends meet, you might not be able to afford your house or apartment, or even have enough money for food. If you don’t have enough money for food, you might starve. In a sense, your brain is correct in interpreting this fear as a fear of starvation.

Fear of job loss or worrying about making ends meet does not automatically make every person fat. Every individual reacts differently to stress. But the truth of the matter is you are more likely to gain weight the more worried you are about losing your job or about making ends meet. Studies have shown that people in particularly stressful working environments and families with less money are more likely to be fat.1

However, you can be a millionaire and still be worried about making ends meet, or about getting ahead. It’s how much you worry about it and how your brain interprets the fear that matters, not the objective reality of the situation.

Spiritual Starvation

Spiritual longing is really a desire to connect with our soul, our creator, or whatever else we may chose to call our one true source. This can be a type of starvation that activates the Fat Programs, but there’s more to it than that. When we feel disconnected, food can sometimes be a way of connecting with the outside world. Think about what you’re doing when you’re eating — you are taking something that is outside of you and you are bringing it inside you in a very intimate way. You are connecting and merging with that food, and that food becomes you; eating becomes a surrogate for the true connection that we desire. When we have spiritual starvation, there can be the tendency to “fill the soul” by eating.

You can also be starving for meaning and purpose in your life, and this can activate the FAT Programs. As a matter of fact, researchers have discovered a statistical correlation between lives lived with a sense of purpose and a healthier weight.2 Living life in a way that we feel is meaningful — feeling like there is a purpose to our existence — nourishes our soul. Meaning and purpose are “soul food,” and many of us are starving for this essential, nonphysical nutrient.

What Are You “Weighting” For? — Follow Your Heart

Here’s a bit of practical (or impractical, depending on the situation) advice. Whatever you really want to do but are afraid to do — DO IT. Take the chance — follow your heart. It’s essential to listen to the messages from your heart. These messages are your soul’s desire. They communicate to you what you are meant to be doing at any given time in your life. If you don’t follow these messages, you will inevitably be straying from your life’s path.

If you don’t listen to the messages from your heart, the feeling of longing and frustration is never going to go away; it will only get worse. Negativity constricts the flow of grace into your life, causing pain and emotional starvation.

I recently saw Gina, a friend of mine who I have not seen in several years. She wants to lose weight and is on a very austere, low-calorie, low-fat, low-carb diet. She’s not even allowed sweet peppers because they have too many carbs.

Gina’s a teacher, and she’s tired of being a teacher. Exhausted, she says she would like to retire in a few years, but she doesn’t have the money. In her spare time, she paints and has several hundred paintings in her shed to prove it. When she showed me the pictures in her portfolio, they took my breath away. She entered two of them in contests and won.

So I asked her the obvious question: Why aren’t you selling your paintings? She said that she was not sure anyone would like them. And as she said this, she hunched her shoulders and tensed her muscles. You could tell Gina was uncomfortable with where the conversation was going.

I said to her, “Wait a minute! You’re tired of what you’re doing for a living, and your heart isn’t in it. In the meantime, you do have something that you love doing, something you would do for free anyway and something you are obviously good at. You have already produced several hundred paintings that are just gathering dust. You would like to lose weight and you are starving yourself to try to do it. You would like to retire but you’re not making enough money.”

At that point I got a little animated, and I said, “Let me tell you something. Your weight problems, your financial problems, and most likely any other physical or mental pains you are experiencing all center on one single issue. You have something you love to do and were born to do, and you’re turning your back on it. Having something that you love doing is a gift from the universe, and you’re rejecting it. When you reject that kind of gift, you are rejecting the grace that goes along with it. As a result, you struggle, you yearn, and you starve.” Then I told Gina in no uncertain terms: “Take the chance! Follow you heart!

Embrace your life’s destiny!” When we said good-bye and Gina walked away, she looked shell-shocked. She was in a daze of realization.

This is a common theme. If we fail to follow our hearts, obesity is often the result. Yearning causes emotional starvation and activates the FAT Programs.

There’s a simple rule to follow.

If you have something that you’d like to do, long to do, yearn to do but are afraid to do — take the chance. DON’T WEIGHT! FOLLOW YOUR HEART!

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How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider’s Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business (Paperback)

by Ewen Chia (Author)

Making Millions

In this comprehensive step-by-step guide to setting up a booming Internet business and raking in million-dollar profits, Ewen Chia demystifies marketing jargon and shares the tips and techniques that continue to net his online businesses a cool fortune. Whether you’re seeking to create and develop a thriving Internet business from scratch or looking to realize the full potential of your existing business, whether you haven’t a clue what the Internet is about, or you’re armed with a business degree, Ewen’s upbeat and accessibly written Million-Dollar Blueprint will help you: –Find out who’s buying what and develop lucrative solutions to meet market needs –Grab and keep the attention of prospective buyers with irresistible offers –Create a follow-up system of additional offers to boost income and grow your business –Automate your business so you can enjoy the ultimate rewards of profits, time, and leisure –Duplicate your business(es) to multiply your total income

The Younger (Thinner) You Diet: How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Help You Lose Weight, Reverse Aging, and Fight Disease (Hardcover)

by Eric Braverman (Author)

The Younger (Thinner) You Diet

“Dr. Braverman identifies the missing component of addictive eating—imbalances in your brain chemistry. His program corrects the problem and makes it possible to stick to his and other great dietary programs for thinness and your health.” —Nicholas Perricone, MD, FACN, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Yale University School of Medicine, and author of the bestsellers The Wrinkle Cure and The Perricone Prescription “Dr. Braverman has done it again. With his keen understanding of the workings of the brain and each individual’s different brain requirements, he is able to rev up your brain metabolism to increase energy and burn body fat. It works, it’s easy, it’s long-lasting and leads to life-long good health. This is no fad diet. This is good science and powerful. If you haven’t been able to crack the code of your personal weight loss you will find the answers here. Say goodbye to unwanted weight forever.” —Suzanne Somers, author of 18 books, including the latest New York Times bestseller Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness “The epidemic of obesity in this country portends a significant increase of serious health problems—diabetes, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, and even dementia and cancer. Dr. Braverman’s solution—emphasizing the consumption of herbs, spices, and teas to alter brain and body metabolism promises to reshape our culture and our waistlines.” —Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, FACP, FACC, Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, and author of Live Now, Age Later, Power to the Patient, and Doctor, What Should I Eat?

Product Description
New research in nutrition and weight loss has revealed an amazing discovery: the brain—virtually neglected in all other diet plans—is the most important organ in dieting. Dieters can actually lose weight by eating foods, nutrients, teas, and spices that change the chemical balance of the brain for permanent weight loss—a major factor contributing to how quickly the body ages. In fact, everyone can take years off their age by changing their brain chemistry. In Younger (Thinner) You Diet, Dr. Eric Braverman expands upon concepts introduced in Younger You to present a totally new approach to lifelong weight management, where the key is not found in counting carbs, fat grams, or calories. Obesity is a brain chemical imbalance, an addictive disorder, treated successfully only through the combined approach of diet, nutrients, and hormones. One of the foremost experts in integrative medicine, known for his work on the brain-body connection, Dr. Braverman teaches readers:-which foods naturally boost the body’s production of dopamine, the chemical in the brain that tells the body to start its fat-burning engine-how to choose foods, supplements, teas, and spices—even hormones and medicine—to avoid the effects of other aging organs that can destroy one’s metabolism-how to personalize the diet for specific health concerns, such as heart problems, aging skin, weak muscles, and achy joints Eliminating the frustration and deprivation of conventional dieting, Younger (Thinner) You Diet will help anyone turn back the clock to a slimmer, healthier, younger you.

The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life (Hardcover)

by Ben Sherwood (Author)

The Survivors Club

The book is a useful, insightful exploration of the nature of survival, the resilience of the human mind and body, and the ways in which we can all use our natural gifts to maximize our chances of coming through catastrophic situations. (Booklist )

Enlightening…first-rate reporting. (Publishers Weekly )

“[The] stories are gripping, to put it mildly… Sherwood gains our trust with his Boy Scout common sense: Be prepared, play to your strengths, stay unruffled, keep the faith.” (Kirkus Reviews )

A rare combination of superb storytelling and practical value. If you do nothing more than read this remarkable book, that alone will improve your chances of prevailing in life’s toughest challenges. (Gavin de Becker, NYT bestselling author of The Gift of Fear )

Ben Sherwood has done an absolutely amazing job of researching the science surrounding the mystery of survival. The book is a treasure trove of information, much of which I had never encountered before. I found myself captivated by the studies and scientists – and deeply moved by the stories of people surviving under the most incredible circumstances. For both my brain and heart it was a page turner. And given the practical pay-off, you probably shouldn’t leave your bed without it! (Tim Johnson, MD, ABC News Medical Editor )

“This book will grab you from the first page and keep you riveted through the end. Sherwood has chosen a viscerally compelling topic and written it brilliantly. Oh sure, THE SURVIVORS CLUB could save your life–but what matters more to me is that it’s a wonderful read, the kind that makes whatever life you’re living feel that much more worthwhile.” (Martha Beck, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the Saints and Expecting, Adam, and columnist for 0, The Oprah Magazine )

“Ben Sherwood has given voice to what we all wonder. Would I make it? Do I have what it takes to survive — and what does it take, by the way? The answers are all here in riveting stories, scientific research, good luck, and Ben’s own travels into the world of learning of how to survive when death is this close.” (Tom Brokaw )

“Experience the wisdom of people who improbably survived the abyss of death. What do they wish they had known before they survived the ordeal, and what is your Survivors IQ? You will want to know the answers that could save your life.” (Mehmet Oz, MD )

Get Motivated!: Overcome Any Obstacle, Achieve Any Goal and Accelerate Your Success with Motivational DNA (Hardcover)

by Tamara Lowe (Author)

Get Motivated

“Identifying drive as the single greatest key to success in every area of life, [Tamara Lowe] investigates its origins, concluding that everyone is hardwired with a specific motivational pattern, or DNA, and that anyone can nurture and harness its potential in themselves, their children and coworkers…Full of practical tools and techniques (including a useful “Goal Achievement Blueprint”), this refreshing and inspirational book is sure to keep readers on a path to self-realized, self-motivated success.”
Publishers Weekly

“Revolutionary and inspiring! Whether you are a new college graduate, entrepreneur, or executive, Get Motivated! is a must-read.”
Rick Belluzzo, former president & COO, Microsoft

“This is an eye-opening and empowering book that will help you in your personal and professional life. I encourage you to Get Motivated! and read this book.”
John C. Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership

“If you want to get in shape and improve your quality of life, this is the book for you!”
Dr. Earl Mindell, author of Vitamin Bible and Prescription Alternatives

“If you manage employees, work with children, or have employees who act like children—read Get Motivated! You’ll learn to motivate everyone from kids to adults, with outstanding results!”
Brian Tracy, personal and professional development expert

“I am inspired! Tamara Lowe does not just offer career motivation, but has a whole section in Get Motivated devoted to showing parents how to motivate their children.”
Heather Whitestone McCallum, Miss America

“Rule #1 for a successful life is to read Get Motivated and get going!”
Phil Town, MSNBC/CNBC financial analyst, author of New York Times #1 bestseller, Rule #1

“A great read for sales pros!”
Tom Hopkins, bestselling author of How to Master the Art of Selling

“If you want to live a more productive life this is a must-read.”
George H. Ross, executive vice president & senior counsel, The Trump Organization

“Get Motivated! is AWESOME BABY, WITH A CAPITAL A!”
Dick Vitale, ESPN

Product Description
Motivated people advance further and faster in their careers, earn more money, are more productive, experience more satisfying relationships and are happier than the less- motivated people around them. But true motivation cannot be faked or forced.

In the same way that each person has a different fingerprint and a distinct combination of DNA, every individual is hardwired with a unique motivational matrix. Grounded in eight years of research with more than 10,000 people, this book reveals how to decode your Motivational DNA for maximum achievement.

Whether you are an individual seeking to realize your personal goals or a leader looking to motivate your team, Get Motivated! will show you how to overcome any obstacle, achieve any goal, and accelerate your success.

For more than twenty years motivational expert Tamara Lowe has produced the largest business seminars in the world, inspiring peak performance in millions. In GET MOTIVATED! she unveils a new system that shows you:
* How to Decode Your Motivational DNA
* How to Hire the Motivated and Motivate Those You’ve Hired
* Easy Ways to Deal with Difficult People
* The Formula for Beating Stress While Meeting Deadlines
* How to Raise Positive, Self-Motivated Children
* How to Kick Your Team’s Performance—and Your Profits—into High Gear

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover)

by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Author)

Meltdown

If you are fed up with Washington boondoggles, and you like the small-government, politically-incorrect thinking of Ron Paul, then you’ll love Tom Woods’s Meltdown. In clear, no-nonsense terms, Woods explains what led up to this economic crisis, who’s really to blame, and why government bailouts won’t work. Woods will reveal:

* Which brave few economists predicted the economic fallout–and why nobody listened
* What really caused the collapse
* Why the Fed–not taxpayers–should have to answer for the current economic crisis
* Why bailouts are band-aids that will only provide temporary relief and ultimately make things worse
* What we should do instead, to put our economy on a healthy path to recovery
With a foreword from Ron Paul, Meltdown is the free-market answer to the Fed-created economic crisis. As the new Obama administration inevitably calls for more regulations, Woods argues that the only way to rebuild our economy is by returning to the fundamentals of capitalism and letting the free market work.

From the Inside Flap
Is Capitalism the Culprit?

The media tells us that “deregulation” and “unfettered free markets” have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation. But the real blame lies elsewhere. In Meltdown, bestselling author Thomas E. Woods Jr. unearths the real causes behind the collapse of housing values and the stock market–and it turns out the culprits reside more in Washington than on Wall Street.
And the trillions of dollars in federal bailouts? Our politicians’ ham-handed attempts to fix the problems they themselves created will only make things much worse.

Woods, a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and winner of the 2006 Templeton Enterprise Award, busts the media myths and government spin. He explains how government intervention in the economy–from the Democratic hobby horse called Fannie Mae to affirmative action programs like the Community Redevelopment Act–actually caused the housing bubble.

Most important, Woods, author of the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, traces this most recent boom-and-bust–and all such booms and busts of the past century–back to one of the most revered government institutions of all: the Federal Reserve System, which allows busy-body bureaucrats and ambitious politicians to pull the strings of our financial sector and manipulate the value of the very money we use.
Meltdown also provides a timely history lesson to counter the current clamor for a new New Deal. The Great Depression, Woods demonstrates, was only as deep and as long as it was because of the government interventions by Herbert Hoover (no free-market capitalist, despite what your high school history teacher may have taught you) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (no savior of the American economy, in spite of what the mainstream media says). If you want to understand what caused the financial meltdown–and why none of the big-government solutions being tried today will work–Meltdown explains it all.

Run for Your Life (Hardcover)

by James Patterson (Author), Michael Ledwidge (Author)

Run for Your Life

A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York’s elite, it is a call to terror.

Only one man can tackle such a high-profile case: Detective Mike Bennett. The pressure is enough for anyone, but Mike also has to care for his 10 children-all of whom have come down with virulent flu at once!

Discovering a secret pattern in The Teacher’s lessons, Detective Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in its history. From the #1 bestselling author comes RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, the continuation of his newest, electrifying series.

About the Author
James Patterson published his first thriller in 1976 and since then has become one of the best-known and bestselling writers of all time, with more than 140 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He is the author of the two most popular detective series of the past decade, featuring Alex Cross and the Women’s Murder Club, and he has written numerous other #1 bestsellers. He has won an Edgar Award–the mystery world’s highest honor–and his novels Kiss the Girls and Along Came aSpider were made into feature films starring Morgan Freeman. His charity, the James Patterson PageTurner Awards, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to individuals and groups that promote the excitement of books and reading. He lives in Florida.

Michael Ledwidge is the author of The Narrowback, Bad Connection, and most recently,the coauthor, with James Patterson, of The Quickie and Step on a Crack.

The Graveyard Book (Hardcover)

by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave Mckean (Illustrator)

The Graveyard Book

In The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman has created a charming allegory of childhood. Although the book opens with a scary scene–a family is stabbed to death by “a man named Jack” –the story quickly moves into more child-friendly storytelling. The sole survivor of the attack–an 18-month-old baby–escapes his crib and his house, and toddles to a nearby graveyard. Quickly recognizing that the baby is orphaned, the graveyard’s ghostly residents adopt him, name him Nobody (“Bod”), and allow him to live in their tomb. Taking inspiration from Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Gaiman describes how the toddler navigates among the headstones, asking a lot of questions and picking up the tricks of the living and the dead. In serial-like episodes, the story follows Bod’s progress as he grows from baby to teen, learning life’s lessons amid a cadre of the long-dead, ghouls, witches, intermittent human interlopers. A pallid, nocturnal guardian named Silas ensures that Bod receives food, books, and anything else he might need from the human world. Whenever the boy strays from his usual play among the headstones, he finds new dangers, learns his limitations and strengths, and acquires the skills he needs to survive within the confines of the graveyard and in wider world beyond. (ages 10 and up) -–Heidi Broadhead

Review
“”The Graveyard Book manages the remarkable feat of playing delightful jazz riffs on Kipling’s classic Jungle Books. One might call this book a small jewel, but in fact it’s much bigger within than it looks from the outside.” — Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn

“After finishing The Graveyard Book, I had only one thought — I hope there’s more. I want to see more of the adventures of Nobody Owens, and there is no higher praise for a book.” — Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels

“It takes a graveyard to raise a child. My favorite thing about this book was watching Bod grow up in his fine crumbly graveyard with his dead and living friends. The Graveyard Book is another surprising and terrific book from Neil Gaiman.” — Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler’s Wife

“The Graveyard Book is endlessly inventive, masterfully told and, like Bod himself, too clever to fit into only one place. This is a book for everyone. You will love it to death.” — Holly Black, co–creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Graveyard Book is everything everyone loves about Neil Gaiman, only multiplied many times over, a novel that showcases his effortless feel for narrative, his flawless instincts for suspense, and above all, his dark, almost silky sense of humor — Joe Hill, author of Heart–Shaped Box