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 nearly three decades.

Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Mike Brown My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart...

SUMMARY: Volume 4 in the bestselling World According to Clarkson series Jeremy Clarkson had a dream. A world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant ...

From Publishers WeeklyOver the past decade or so, numerous studies have suggested that prayer and meditation can enhance physical health and healing from illness. In this stimulating ...

Product DescriptionThe Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don’t know even now, however, is how much more it’s fi...

From Library JournalIn 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference of time travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their own skillful...

From Publishers WeeklyNine thoughtful, unfussy essays by the author of the collection I Was Told There'd Be Cake navigate around illusions of youth in the hope that by young adult...

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 apart from o...

Oprah Book Club® Selection, November 2000: Andre Dubus III wastes no time in capturing the dark side of the immigrant experience in America at the end of the 20th century. House of Sand and Fog opens ...

House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)