WHEN GEORGE'S FATHER DIED, HE LEFT GEORGE HIS WATCHMAKER SHOP -- AND MORE.But George has little talent for watches and other infernal devices. When someone tries to steal an old de...
SUMMARY: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is...
SUMMARY: A Ferrari F40 has it, a Lexus hasn't. Concorde's got it, but not an Airbus. And while Titanic had it in spades, the Queen Mary 2 must have been in the wrong queue. Soul. S...
From BooklistNew York Times columnist and college professor Fish appreciates fine sentences the way some people appreciate fine wine. In 10 short chapters, Fish takes readers throu...
Amazon.com ReviewThe author of __ checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she's co...
We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins...
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...
SUMMARY: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother s adultery? Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearb...
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...
SUMMARY: He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something ...