EDITORIAL REVIEW: When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got away–first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing ...
This remarkable true story recounts the magical seven days during which Hollywood's biggest star – the newly married Marilyn Monroe – escaped a difficult movie shoot and the pressu...
Review"My Life as a Fake_ _is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling." –John Updike, The New Y...
Elkin's National Book Critics Circle Award–winning classic: The story of an elderly woman who suddenly becomes mixed up in a world of criminals and con artists After her beloved hu...
Amazon.com ReviewAli Smith, Booker Prize–nominated, bestselling author of There But For The, and The Accidental, interviews Helen Oyeyemi about *Mr. Fox*...
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel...
From School Library JournalGr 5-8–History and fiction marry beautifully in this lively debut novel. It's as if readers jump off the train in Manifest, KS, in 1936 with Abilene Tuck...
From School Library JournalGr 9 Up–The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immedia...
SUMMARY: No one except Milrose Munce knows that ghosts of former students live in his school. Not only is Milrose aware of these ghouls – he’s on a first-name basis with all of the...
SUMMARY: A unique voice, Melissa Jacobs delivers a second fun–filled, food–filled novel. Mimi's life is an open book, or rather, an open menu. A restaurant consultant, she's helped...