SUMMARY: When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image...
Our unnamed narrator is the mother of countless children, also nameless, from several marriages, and the wife of the successful screenwriter Jake Armitage. The Armitages are bui...
In this technology-driven age, it's tempting to believe that science can solve every mystery. After all, science has cured countless diseases and even sent humans into space. But a...
Synopsis:Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available t...
From the Back CoverMaster the latest release of the C++ language: C++11C++ is often the language of choice for writing fast, powerful, and enterprise-class object-o...
From Publishers WeeklyEmerson (_Firetrap_) takes a page from James Dickey's Deliverance in this rousing survival yarn that pits a group of mountain bikers against gun-toting, veng....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: This retelling of 'Pride and Prejudice', by Hilary Burningham, is a simplified version of the novel, accompanied by key passages from the original. Illustrations ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn’t seen in years... -Children- They met first in boarding ...