From the author of the New York Times best-seller Dream West comes this vivid historical novel about the dawn of America and the personalities that shaped it. Only three short decades after the...
Bob Lee Swagger and Philip Yano are bound together by a single moment at Iwo Jima, 1945, when their fathers, two brave fighters on opposite sides, met in the bloody and chaotic battle for the island....
A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly grasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital’s doctors, some of the best in the...
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael...
When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. Plenty of people had reason to want him dead. But the police thought his wife Nikki - with motive, access...
It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, it's not...
"[Barry Lopez is] among the greatest 20th century American nature writers. " With the publication of his best-selling Of Wolves and Men and the astonishing originality of Arctic Dreams, National...
It all started one spring morning, with a complicated calculas problem that Beth Bryant couldn't figure out. Hoping to get a little help from the brilliant Stone twins, Rick & Ryan, Beth leaves them...
When we first met "the pariah of the village . . .the son of the drunkard" in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Tom was "under strict orders not to play with him", so he played with him every time he got...
Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed fences,...
