Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He’s an art dealer, she’s an editor. They live well. They have their troubles – their ebbing passions, their wayward daughter, and certain doubts about their careers – but they feel as though they’re happy. Happy enough. Until Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, short for the Mistake) comes to visit. And after he arrives, nothing will ever be the same again. 238p. Kindle Price: $9.99 Peter and Rebecca Harris, midforties, are prosperous denizens of Manhattan. He’s an art dealer, she’s an editor. They live well. They have their troubles – their ebbing passions, their wayward daughter, and certain doubts about their careers – but they feel as though they’re happy. Happy enough. Until Rebecca’s much younger, look-alike brother Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, short for the Mistake) comes to visit. And after he arrives, nothing will ever be the same again. 238p. Kindle Price: $9.99

Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture of Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a much beloved sitcom. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: trapped on the International Space Station by a layer of low-orbit mines, Chase's teenage sweetheart and fiancee Janice Trumbuill sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in earth's stratosphere, he in vague routine punctuated by Upper Eastside dinner paties. Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed-free-range-pop-critic, whose countercultural savvy and voracious panranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. 467p. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture of Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a much beloved sitcom. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: trapped on the International Space Station by a layer of low-orbit mines, Chase's teenage sweetheart and fiancee Janice Trumbuill sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in earth's stratosphere, he in vague routine punctuated by Upper Eastside dinner paties. Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed-free-range-pop-critic, whose countercultural savvy and voracious panranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. 467p. Kindle Price: $11.99

First published in 1945. Universally acclaimed, this outstanding one-volume work on the subject is unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudtion, and its grace and wit. In seventy-six chatpers, Russell traces philosophy from the rise of civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the 20th century, citing more than twenty historic and notably influential philosophers, and in the process chronicling the entire span of philosophy in the Western world. 895p.

The staff writer for the 'Weekly Standard' argues that al Qaeda & Iraq were in league. Kindle Price: $9.99

Using his expertise in law & strategy to discern the potentiality of the State, its origin in war, and its drive for peace and legitimacy, Professor Bobbitt cites the all-too-real possibility that our civilization will be (or is already) facing a tragedy without precedent in its history. This book anticipates the coalitional war against terrorism and lays out alternative futures for the world. Against the specter of a world of limitless destruction, it traces the origins and evolution of the State to such wars and the peace conferences that forged their outcomes into law, from Augsburg, to Westphalia to Utrecht to Vienna to Versailles. Notes, bibliography, index. 919p. Kindle Price: $15.99

Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members commit suicide.