Although Dean Karnazes' "Ultramarathon Man" and Neal Jamison's "Running Through the Wall" provide runners with engrossing narrative accounts of the experience of running beyond 26....
From School Library JournalGrade 6 Up-Matty, who has lived in Village with the blind Seer since running away from an abusive childhood, is looking forward to receiving his true nam...
Review"A funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . Easy to read and hard to forget."--Time"Eloquent, reckless, hilarious . . . plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mys...
SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it's nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers fo...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?** T...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When her part-time reporting gig gives Lucy the opportunity to attend a Boston newspaper conference, she looks forward to the vacation from domestic bliss. But th...
Product DescriptionEvery year, professor of antiquities Jack Hawthorne looks forward to the winter break as a time to hide away from his responsibilities. Even if just for a week o...
Product DescriptionWhite consumes the New Hampshire landscape, as US troops close like a platoon of ghosts on an armed cult, following a spate of unnaturally severe blizzards. Scre...
SUMMARY: Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida shou...