SUMMARY: Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life....
Review"The virtual world he imagined is now as real as concrete...the very fabric of a twenty-first century that he and a tiny club of others literally invented. Shy, humble, brill...
From Publishers WeeklySorokin's epic trilogy, originally published between 2002 and 2005, expands the enigma of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite blast into an impressive merger of metap...
Product DescriptionWhat once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of co...
Amazon.com ReviewIn this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independe...
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And th...
SUMMARY: Questions for Charles Yu on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe You’re a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When...
A shrewd and irreverent cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed all of us...
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Mike Brown My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart...
From Publishers WeeklyOver the past decade or so, numerous studies have suggested that prayer and meditation can enhance physical health and healing from illness. In this stimulati...