SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According T...
Carl knows more than most how hard it can be to find one's place in an imperfect world. Abandoned by his mother, scorned by his father, cuckolded by his wife, too tall, too naiv...
From School Library JournalStarred Review. Using a variety of primary sources, Cannato (_The Ungovernable City_) describes Ellis Island as a place and as an experience for the appr...
From Publishers WeeklyMurakami's 12th work of fiction is darkly entertaining and more novella than novel. Taking place over seven hours of a Tokyo night, it intercuts three loosely...
From Publishers WeeklyHow a photon can be in two places at once is just one of the conundrums of quantum physics that Fayer (Elements of Quantum Mechanics) helps to unravel. The St...
Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perce...
A journey beyond imaginationis about to unfold...It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her ...
SUMMARY:Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, ...
SUMMARY:Under the best circumstances, terraforming is a tough, dangerous task that pits the hardiest of pioneers against an unforgiving environment. When the terraformers on...
SUMMARY: "A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shap...