SUMMARY:On an impulse, schoolteacher Jim Ironheart flies to Portland, Oregon without understanding why. There he saves a boy from being killed by a drunk driver and is ...
Amazon.com ReviewDave Itzkoff on Cocaine's SonWhatever the circumstances of our childhoods, we all grow up to become adults with questions about our parent...
You know the feeling. You meet someone new—at a party or at work—and you just hit it off. There is an instant sense of camaraderie. In a word, you “click.” From the bestselling aut...
SUMMARY:China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the ...
SUMMARY: Fantasy fiction. All resistance has been crushed. In a few minutes of overwhelming violence the Council's air-dreadnought fleet has destroyed Fiz Gorgo's defences. Xervish...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and lim...
From Publishers WeeklyMedieval Spain's caste system can't keep a good man down in this absorbing epic, a Spanish-language bestseller. Arnau Estanyol, son of a fugitive peasant, sta...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!** **First Date à la Maggie** Take one lovelorn diner owner (me) A generous helping of nosy local gossips ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town's inhabitants over fiv....
If you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop Android applications. This hands-on book shows you how to use these open source web standards—...