The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power....View more

"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of...View more

Dante can swim. Ari can't. Dante is articulate and self-assured. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Dante gets lost in...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern...View more

"Lowry's masterpiece...has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works fo fiction produced in [the twentieth] century." — Los Angeles Times Geoffrey...View more

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his...View more

2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve.  For Joshua Valienté, now in his late...View more

In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all  The Last Don is Mario...View more

This is a collection of 13 birthday stories from some of the most distinguished authors of recent years. The stories have been selected and introduced...View more

will grayson, meet will grayson One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. Two teens with the same name, running...View more

One day an elderly Korean woman disappears from bustling Seoul Station, and her family launches a desperate, all-out search to find her. As they comb...View more

With little more than courage and ingenuity, five Union prisoners escaped the siege of Richmond-by hot-air balloon. They have no idea if they'll ever see...View more