#1 International bestselling author Christina Ross returns with a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy in her wildly popular Annihilate Me series, which has sold over 3.5 million copies in six different languages. This book can easily be read as a stand-alone novel. In Annihilate Me, Baby, the pressure on Jennifer isn't just significant-it's overwhelming. Crushing. Annihilating... First, nanny Helga needs to rush to Moscow to be with her ailing sister, Manya, thus leaving Jennifer and Alex without childcare while they still must find time to run their conglomerate, Wenn Enterprises. So what to do with Aiden, who is now two-and-a-half years old-and who apparently has a rocket attached to his back? Second, before Helga left, Jennifer and Alex decided to get pregnant again. Despite Helga's absence, Alex is as determined as ever to get that done. Since Jennifer doesn't want to disappoint him simply because they don't have a nanny, they start having sex everywhere-literally everywhere (!)-and at the most inopportune of times. With so much going on, it's not long before Jennifer is sexed-up to the point of exhaustion. Finally, there's Dame Hélène Mirage, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress who is hired to be the face of Wenn Cosmetic's new skincare line, Age Perfected. She's seventy-five, her next film is a remake of the camp classic 'Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?', and in no time, she lives up to her storied reputation for being a full-on diva. Her weird demands and bizarre behavior become so much for Jennifer to handle that soon Alex is brought in to temper the situation. But does he even stand a chance when there's an unhinged diva on the loose? Annihilate Me, Baby brings Alex and Jennifer closer than they've ever been-all while Blackwell and Tank choose to do a little sleuthing on the sly when they decide that getting Mirage in line can only be done with a threat that could end her career... In Annihilate Me, Baby, readers will find all of their favorite characters reconnecting two years after Lisa and Tank's wedding in Unleash Me: Wedding. It's the Annihilate Me series at its best!

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. THE SERIES WITH MORE THAN TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE! After one hellish year, Jennifer and Alex decide to take a break from it all and spend the holidays back in Maine with their extended family, only this time they don't choose their home on the Maine coast. Instead, they rent a mansion at the popular ski resort, Sugarloaf Mountain. And while they're there, apparently everything that can go wrong does go wrong in ways that are designed to keep you horrified--as well as howling. After all, at Sugarloaf, a motherlode of surprises await Blackwell, Daniella, Alexa, Cutter, Brock and Madison (from "Ignite Me"), and naturally, also Jennifer and Alex. Could there be love in the air for Blackwell? And also for Daniella and Alexa? And if there is for any of them, what fresh hell does that mean for you--the reader? In "Annihilate Him: Holiday"--in which Lisa, Tank, Epifania and Rhoda also are onboard--romance, love, sexy times and hilarity ensue! Note: You must read volumes 1-3 of the "Annihilate Him" series before you read "Annihilate Him: Holiday." Many readers have asked, so! Here is the reading order for the Annihilate Me series: Annihilate Me, Vol. 1 Annihilate Me, Vol. 2 Annihilate Me, Vol. 3 Annihilate Me, Vol. 4 Annihilate Me, Holiday Unleash Me, Vol. 1 Unleash Me, Vol. 2 Unleash Me, Vol. 3 Annihilate Him, Vol. 1 Annihilate Him, Vol. 2 Annihilate Him, Vol. 3 Ignite Me Annihilate Him: Holiday A Dangerous Widow Annihilate Them Annihilate Them: Holiday Unleash Me: Wedding

From the international best-selling author with more than two million books sold worldwide in six different languages! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545} Description: After one hellish year in which their lives nearly were claimed by a madman—and with a new baby on the way in just a matter of weeks—Jennifer and Alex decide to spend this particular holiday season in Manhattan with their extended family of friends, if only so Jennifer can be close to her doctor. With that decision made and no travel plans on the horizon, one would think that this holiday should be a breeze, right? Not even close. First, Blackwell and Lisa butt heads over who’s the best choice to throw Jennifer’s baby shower. As infamously strong-willed as Blackwell is, she’s soon rattled to find out that Lisa is no pushover. In fact, she’s hellbent on proving that she can stand up to Blackwell with ideas of her own…in ways that might leave the reader howling. Second, there’s Cutter and Daniella, who are headed straight for a break-up due to Daniella’s insistence that they move in together Will they be kissing under the mistletoe after weeks of not speaking? After Blackwell has a heart-to-heart talk with her daughter, readers might be surprised by the outcome… Third—and perhaps most dire in this book—is the appearance of Ava Kent, Jennifer’s abusive and cunning drunk of a mother, who suddenly crashes back into Jennifer’s life in ways that are so corrosive and toxic, it sends an already fragile Jennifer literally to her breaking point. In Annihilate Them: Holiday, expect all the romance, love, sexy times and laughs that you’ve come to expect from Christina Ross, but also expect much more drama, especially when it comes to Ava. When she dares to threaten Jennifer with one mother of a deception that sheds new insight into Jennifer’s past, she does so with a fierceness that darkens these holidays in the coldest of ways. Note: Make sure to read “Annihilate Them” before you read “Annihilate Them: Holiday.”

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."

A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson). Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage.