EDITORIAL REVIEW: In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her hous...
SUMMARY: Jonathan Dee is the author of four novels, most recently Palladio. He is a staff writer for "The New York Times Magazine," a frequent contributor to "Harper's," and a form...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. When the badly mutilated body of John Harald Jonsson—a working-class family man and an expert on the tropical fish known as cichlids—is found....
From School Library JournalGrade 7 Up—This stand-alone sequel to The Princess and the Hound (HarperCollins, 2007) examines and critiques humanity by contrasting animals and people....
SUMMARY: The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general ...
Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar....
SUMMARY: Meet The Clique, the five girls who rule Octavian Country Day School . . .There's Massie, with her glossy bob and laser-whitened smile, uncontested leader of the Clique. D...
SUMMARY: In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as the...