From Publishers WeeklyMcDevitt (_Seeker_) avoids flashy action scenes in this tale of two friends using a time machine to take a grand tour of history. When Adrian Shel Shelbourne'...
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series--the Magic Tree House! Tigers in trouble?That's what Jack and Annie find when the M...
"<i>Tiger</i> clips along at a lightning pace!"--Eoin Colfer<br><br>Twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long don't know who their parents were. Raised f...
SUMMARY: A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” InThunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"[A]n extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall."--NewsdayFrom Ra...
Destiny will be decided between the sheets in this all-new tale of The Princess and the Pea.For Olivia Lytton, betrothal to the Duke of Canterwick—hardly a Prince Charming—feels mo...
Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java - JavaWorld Editor's Choice Award for Best Book, 2001 JavaWorld Reader's Choice Award for Best Book, 2000 Software Development Magazine Productivity ...
SUMMARY:THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these s...
Amazon.com ReviewA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can...
SUMMARY:Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twiste...