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Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn t... -
Transition - Iain M. Banks
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... -
Trading Christmas - Debbie Macomber
Emily Springer decides to leave Leavenworth, Washington, to spend Christmas with her daughter in Boston.Charles Brewster, history professor, curmudgeon and resident of Boston, want... -
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire. . . . I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of... -
The Smart Cookies' Guide to Mak - Smart Cookies; Jennifer Barrett
Let The Smart Cookies show you how to eliminate debt, spend smarter, save better, and achieve financial freedom—without sacrificing your social life or your sanity! They were five ... -
The Secret of Ka - Christopher Pike
Amazon.com Review Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Author Christopher Pike Q: How do you spend your time when you’re not writing? P... -
The Information Diet - Clay A. Johnson
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens an... -
The House - Danielle Steel
FromSarah Anderson, a beautiful, successful thirtysomething attorney, is having a midlife crisis. She's become a workaholic, spending 60- to 70-hour weeks at the office, and she is... -
The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
From Publishers WeeklyThe protagonist of Cave's pleasantly demented second novel, set in England, is living out a porno: door-to-door lotion salesman Bunny Munro spends his days se... -
The Cardturner - Louis Sachar
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—Alton Richards is resigned to spending a slow summer on his own after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend and he finds himself with ...