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Prince of Fire - Daniel Silva
SUMMARY: Few recent thriller writers have excited the kind of critical praise that Daniel Silva has, with his novels featuring art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon. Now Allo... -
Powers - Ursula K. le Guin
Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must... -
Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
SUMMARY:Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her br... -
Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Amazon.com ReviewSometimes it seems like every standup comedian worth his or her salt just has to do the book thing, and you might feel that yet another warmed-over stage routine .... -
Murder at Ford's Theatre - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyThe spirit of Chandra Levy hovers over Truman's latest Washington, D.C., mystery (Murder on the Potomac, etc.), which, despite a sometimes confusing plot and ... -
Mom - Dave Isay
"What I want to say to you is that sometimes life catches you by surprise and you feel unequipped to handle what it brings you, but every bit of life you've lived before that momen... -
Junie B., first grader_ boss of - Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus
SUMMARY: Junie, an outspoken, sometimes exasperating, first grader is thrilled when she is told she can help out Mrs. Gutzman in the school cafeteria and imagines what it will be l... -
Hope's Edge_ The Next Diet for - Frances Moore Lappe; Anna Lappe
Hope's Edge follows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in wo... -
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer - Lish McBride
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to ra... -
Gig - John Bowe
"Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating."<br>-- <i>USA Today</i><br><br>"The a...