SUMMARY:Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangl...
SUMMARY: November 2001. A Zodiac Inflatable Slips Away From A Submarine Off The North African Coast. If He Hadn'T Needed American Citizenship So Badly, Nick Stone Wouldn T Have Agr...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century, a moment that left a family and a nation mourning, one that many Americans recall as their first ...
From Publishers WeeklyFrom the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn...
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. ...
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home, food on the table, and a high school he can attend for more than part of a year. But as the son of a single father working in wareho...
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and sig...
From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up—After high school, two best friends move to Los Angeles hoping to start "a new and amazing life," but their existence is anything but glamorou...
When a file containing sensitive top-secret foreign-policy information disappears, the world's most powerful nations scramble to retrieve it before its contents can destroy the ...
SUMMARY:Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, w...