SUMMARY: "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance a...
Amazon.com ReviewWritten in the present tense, First They Killed My Father will put you right in the midst of the action--action you'll wish had never happened. It's a tough read,....
SUMMARY:Sometimes the weakness we fear most can become our greatest strength . . . Jack McClure has had a troubled life. His dyslexia always made him feel like an outsider. ...
SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably t...
Talk about lost in translation... In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then ...
Four inhabitants of a crumbling world: a drug-addled boy, living in dank recesses, sets out in an ancient car to find his ex, who has mysteriously vanished overnight; a privileged...
Poor, orphaned Grace Parkes is in a horrible situation. Her illegitimate child has just died in childbirth, so she's traveled to the Brookwood Cemetery to place the small infant's ...
FromA new guy named Michael has been watching Ellie at school. It is soon revealed that he remembers Ellie from a trip their families took years ago, though Ellie has no similar re...
FromStarred Review Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is n....