Dragged from California to Utah to Massachusetts in the wake of their mother Colleen's chaotic existence, Justine and Rona watch as visions of the family's "great new life" quickly fade. Colleen...
In this important new biography, Ronald C. White, Jr. offers a fresh and fascinating definition of Lincoln as a man of integrity ? what today's commentators are calling "authenticity" ? whose internal...
A Handbook for the Overworked, Overscheduled, and Overwhelmed
Rita Emmett
How often do you think to yourself: So much to do and so little time? In the sympathetic and insightful style of The Procrastinator's Handbook, Rita Emmett offers help for those of us with too much...
Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But no on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idead oa good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy....
In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. The ruthlessness of the prosecutors and the eagerness of neighbor to testify against...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has been hailed by literary critics as the inventor of modern horror, and a cultivating force behind such modern writers as Robert Bloch (Psycho), Wes Craven (The Craft,...
A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Steve Lopez
When journalist Steve Lopez sees Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he finds it impossible to walk away. More than thirty years ago, Ayers was a...
As the world is being transformed by astonishing new technologies and ideas, in one single, monumental month of 1848 gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war,...
What is your best? Are you giving it ? Why don't we consistently, day after day, benefit from our best qualities and talents? If the ability is there, why don`t we use it? If we have the...
Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance with Death
Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim, a traumatized American POW who survived the Dresden bombing during World War II, becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens. Under their watchful gaze, he must relive his...