10,000 CupcakesIts pages are split into three sections that turn independently to offer a selection of cupcakes, toppings, and decorations. Flip through the bottom section to choose your cupcake recipe. Turn to the middle section to select your icing. And to complete your creation, either with careful deliberation or random abandon, by turning to a top menu of artistic decorations that will light up any party. Sometimes literally. Whatever combination you choose

or teach a lesson in living like bestselling author Jeffrey Archer

Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times

late in life

"--The New York Times Book Review

brown-paper gift packaging

even comfortable

Until the day my life was stolen

A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment watching her closest friend ritually starve herself to death

Tracing the conversations and interactions she has with her family and friends as they blend seamlessly into her internal monologue

Following the biographical style of 1599

transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil

a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East