In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He ...
Product DescriptionThe New York Times best-seller, now in paperback! This paperback edition of the New York Times best-selling title expands the civil upheaval among the drow, one ...
SUMMARY: Old Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every night he wakes just a little bit earlier, and pretty soon, he thinks, he won't get any sleep at all. It wouldn't ...
SUMMARY: In the conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that began with Sea Swept and Rising Tides , Philip Quinn's bond to his adopted brother, Seth, is threatened by a young woman...
Product DescriptionNot so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the f...
SUMMARY:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophi...
SUMMARY: The ninth Repairman Jack novel begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close and Jack, the care...
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou...
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes ap...