Penelope FitzgeraldShortlisted for the Booker Prize.In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried...

Sally M RogowTwelve tales of youth heroism during Nazi occupation of Europe based on factual sources. A resource for Holocaust education that helps youth identify with the characters and their...

Author: William Maxwell On an Illinois farm in the 1920s, a man is murdered, and in the same moment the tenous friendship between two lonely boys comes to an end....

Running on Ritalin: A Physician Reflects on Children, Society, and Performance in a PillLawrence H Diller, MDIn a book as provocative and newsworthy as Listening to Prozac and Driven to...

Author: Harold Kushner Bestselling author Kushner rekindles listeners' feelings of faith and joy, and teaches them how to recognize their own capacity for true fulfillment.

Laurie FriedmanSpunky, eight-year-old Mallory McDonald is very unhappy when her parents decide to get her older brother Max a dog. Why would her parents agree to such a thing? Dogs...

Emma McLaughin and Nicola Kraus   Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a...

Cynthia HeimalIn When Your Phone Doesn't Ring, It'll Be Me, which critics say is her best yet, Heimel reveals her secrets - which turn out to be our own. She...

Polly ShulmanJulie's best friend, Ashleigh, is an enthusiast. Julie never knows what new obsession will catch Ashleighs fancy, but she does know she's likely to be drawn into the madness.Ashleighs...

Robert B ParkerOn location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the...

The Correspondence of John Cheever and John D Weaver, 1945 - 1982Edited by John D WeaverA personal view of the life of John Cheever, featuring the correspondence, spanning 40 years,...

Robert B ParkerTen years after hit man Crow Cromartie escapes with the spoils of a lucrative heist, Massachusetts police officer Jesse Stone is astonished when the fugitive enlists his cooperation...