Petaybee was growing up. Day by day, the sentient planet--like any child--was learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to c...
A woman must come to terms with the circumcision she endured as a child in Africa In Tashi's tribe, the Olinka, young girls undergo circumcision as an initiation into the community...
From David Cordingly, one of the world’s foremost experts on pirate history, and author of the perennial favorite Under the Black Flag, comes the thrilling story of the man who fou...
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Special Operator! Thats the word that goes out from the Philadelphia mob. The Philly underground is in danger of coming apart at the seams, rocked from within by a succession of po...
Palestine Inside Out Sheds Light on the most important—but also the least visible—aspects of life under occupation: the permits, passes, curfews, closures, “sterile roads,” and “se...
SUMMARY: As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's L...
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: Onward is not a puff piece. In just under 400 brisk pages, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz details the m...
From Publishers WeeklyWith the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Depart...
SUMMARY: At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspice...