SUMMARY: When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes up on an island called Lilliput, where the people are only six inches tall. This is just the beginning of many amazing adven...
New York Times eBook bestseller!One fateful starless night, 17-year-old Ira Wagler got up at 2 AM, left a scribbled note under his pillow, packed all of his earthly belongings into...
SUMMARY: On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the sout...
Nobody knows Great Britain like Lonely Planet. Whether you're after prehistoric sites in Orkney, mountain climbing in Snowdonia, the tastiest fish and chips in East Anglia, or a qu...
From Publishers WeeklyPearson, who stars in HBO's The Wire, was born ill and underweight from her mother's drug habits, and later worked for a crack dealer in East Baltimore. At a....
Product DescriptionThe nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily dem...
A compulsively readable debut crime novel inspired by the legendary real-life murder of Kitty Genovese. At 4:00 A.M. on March 13, 1964, a young woman returning home from her shift ...
Got fired? Satisfy the urge to set something ablaze with a Flaming Diablo. Heinous meeting? Plunge into a Death in the Afternoon. Gained weight? Forget the club soda — embrace thos...
SUMMARY:Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan-by dozens of people wit...
"To call <b>Going After Cacciato</b> a novel about war is like calling <b>Moby-Dick</b> a novel about whales."<br><br>So wrote the <i>New York Times</i> of Tim O'Brien's now classi...