(1990-First Edition) SUMMARY: Orson Scott Card shares his advice on how to break into this field, how to develop fantastic story ideas, and evolve fresh plots.
From Publishers WeeklyIn this enchanting first novel, Dilloway mines her own family's history to produce the story of Japanese war bride Shoko, her American daughter, Sue, and thei...
FromIn this collection, Eggers (_Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius_) is obviously straddling the line between being a writer—and a very talented one at that—and being the spo...
SUMMARY: From the writer whose first novel,Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for near...
The flood of information and unprecedented transparency reshaping today's business world has dramatically changed the rules of the game. It's no longer what you do that sets you ap...
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself...
Hope's Edge follows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in wo...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: An arresting story about starting over after a friend’s suicide, froma breakthrough new voice in YA fiction *dear caitlin, there are so many things that i want so...
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—This sometimes goofy, sometimes gory debut novel introduces Sam, a fast-food employee in Seattle who has grown up unaware of his ability to ra...
Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless -- and oddly familiar -- universe, but the Hogfather is on...