FromBorn and raised in Detroit, Clemens has witnessed firsthand the decline and death of manufacturing in that city. So when he pondered writing about the decline of the American w...
Amazon.com ReviewBritish-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Rab...
SUMMARY: Five lost souls in search of redemption . . .To outsiders it looks as if Mary was born unlucky, but deep down she believes in a happy ending. She just needs someone to rem...
SUMMARY: Once there were great magicians born to the Maghuin Dhonn; the folk of the Brown Bear, the oldest tribe in Alba. But generations ago, the greatest of them all broke a sacr...
From Publishers WeeklyBorn into a spiritually ambiguous family (his parents are nonpracticing Jews who follow the "Infinite Way"), Gartenstein-Ross grew up in the 1980s, in Ashland...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born wa...
From BooklistStarred Review Sybilla may have been born to wealthy parents, but her home life was never easy, and she ran away at 17. Ever since, Sybilla has been homeless and livi....