SUMMARY:Troy Phelan is a self-made billionaire, one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric, reclusive, confined to a wheelchair, and looking for a wa...
From School Library JournalYA. This story of friendship and betrayal is set in Washington, DC, where four young men who have grown up together become housemates, each with his firs...
From Publishers WeeklyAward-winning science writer Johnson (A Fire in the Mind; Strange Beauty) calls readers away from the industrialized mega-scale of modern science (w...
SUMMARY:How do you tempt an archmage who has everything?From a dark and dusty tomb, Elminster emerges, seeking the guidance of Mystra, and finds only silence. He is drawn in...
From Publishers WeeklyTravel maestro Theroux (The Great Railway Bazaar) conducts a rambling tour of the genre in this diverting meditation on passages from his own and other writer...
About the AuthorBorn and educated in the United States, with a master's degree in Chinese language and civilization, Daniel P. Reid now lives in Taiwan, where he has studi...
FromWar correspondent Barker first started reporting from Afghanistan in 2003, when the war there was lazy and insignificant. She was just learning to navigate Afghan culture, one ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The latest tale in the "charming" (*Publishers Weekly*) Beatrix Potter series! ** In the Lake District, noisy test flights of the new hydroplane are disrupting...
This original, authorised version has been lovingly recreated electronically for the first time, with reproductions of Potter's unmistakeable artwork optimised for use on colour de...
Product DescriptionSummoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. Tris seeks new allies from among the ...