Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R...
SUMMARY: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profi...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The...
SUMMARY: In The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone, Greg Keyes has crafted a brilliant saga of magic, adventure, and love set against a backdrop of clashing empires and an ancient, reawake...
Xen allows administrators to run many virtual operating systems on one physical server, including Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, and Microsoft Windows. The Book of Xen explains everythin...
From School Library JournalGrade 5-8–At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will ...
THE BOOK LOVER’S COOKBOOKRecipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature ThemShaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay JensenWake up to a perfect breakf...
SUMMARY: From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himsel...
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection <b>The Boat</b> take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering ves...
SUMMARY: Dear Reader:Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is...