These real-life stories brilliantly evoke the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill. In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the...
Notorious outlaw Manitoba Joe Clark seems to have been caught red-handed this time, but he's begging Judge Kingston to find out who framed him. At home, life seems to be unraveling for the judge and...
Set in England during Richard I's reign, Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth and romance.
A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man...
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Cat Novak, betrays no secrets - except for a notebook clutched in one...
In the conclusion of Guy Gavriel Kay's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, five university students from our world prepare to sacrifice themselves—as they enter into...
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, after a long, hard journey from Boston, sixteen-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily or so...
Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greg Mortenson
This book picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting Mortenson's ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan, including his work after a massive earthquake in...
