Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity, John Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his blue French...
From School Library JournalGr 7-10–Three young teens, trash-picker living in the city dump of an unnamed third-world country, discover a mysterious bag one morning, triggering a ch...
SUMMARY:With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conch's historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: How can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted field—a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secre...
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each c...
Amazon.com ReviewTownie. You might think that following his father's trade would have been natural and even obvious for the son and namesake of Andre Dubus, one of the most admire....
SUMMARY: JOHN UPDIKE IS "A STYLIST OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, capable of illuminating the sublime in the mundane, thereby elevating all of human experience." --Chicago Tribune Toward th...
From Publishers WeeklyThe pseudonymous Davys's third crime spoof to feature stuffed animals who behave just like humans (after Lanceheim) might have benefited from characters the r...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **His Touch Holds Her Captive. . .** From the ravens circling its spires to the gargoyles adorning its roof, Blackberry Manor looms ominously over its rambling gr...
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Dr. Mike Flynn's single mom taught him early how to cook and clean, and there's nothing like vacuuming or d...