SUMMARY: Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radio...
SUMMARY: When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper se...
For "Darwin Year," a fresh-eyed and enchanting journey through South America in his footsteps One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the wor...
From WikipediaCat's Eye is a 1988 novel by Margaret Atwood. In it, controversial painter Elaine Risley vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories a...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In a single day in 2004, Danticat (_Breath, Eyes, Memory_; The Farming of Bones) learns that she's pregnant and that her father...
Amazon.com ReviewOprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on ...
SUMMARY:When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life w...
FromIn a not terribly distant future, teen Sam Wilson catches the eye of the Homeland Security Cyber Defense Division because of his preternatural hacking instincts; he is given th...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Somewhere between diary, verbal sketchbook and play-by-play account of whatever passed before his eyes, this collection of poems transcribed ....
The future changes in the Blink of an Eye...or does it?Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the M...