After the success in recent years of his mature work (the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF diptych Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead and the excellent fantasy, Seventh Son ), t...
SUMMARY: A brilliantly witty and intelligent memoir of the adventures, discoveries, rescues, and narrow escapes of Martha Gellhorn, one of America's most important war corresponden...
A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of *Great Plains*In his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, ...
Believing that a good, interesting life is marked by quality, not quantity, John Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet and prepared to travel. He was accompanied by his blue French...
From School Library JournalGr 7-10–Three young teens, trash-picker living in the city dump of an unnamed third-world country, discover a mysterious bag one morning, triggering a ch...
SUMMARY:With its dozens of outlying islands and the native Conch's historically low regard for the law, Key West is a smuggler's paradise. All that's needed are the captains...
SUMMARY: There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: How can love survive a brutal time? In 1946 in North America, a child makes a grisly find in a deserted field—a discovery that opens a shuttered window on a secre...
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each c...
Review"A magnificent treatise by a distinguished philosopher on the pursuit of spiritual perfection." -- —Publishers Weekly "A major contribution to the only important...