Joyce Carol Thomas In these four acclaimed novels, National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Thomas evocatively captures the triumph and struggles of teens as they come of age, and break...

Anchee Min “Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation” ( Rocky Mountain News ). During...

Eoin Colfer Benny, a sports-obsessed, carefree kid, is convinced that he can take on the world-until he spends the summer living with his grandfather and meets resident tomboy and all-around...

Sophie Green 1978. Life in Australia's vast Northern Territory isn't always easy. Telephones are not yet common, and the treacherous seasons make even travelling to the next town a struggle....

Tim Clissold In the early 1990s, China finally opened for business, and Wall Street wanted to get in on the act. When the investment bankers arrived from New York with...

Peter Biddlecombe Faster, They're Gaining is the sixth in a series of dispatches from all over the world, taking Peter Biddlecombe's total to 115 countries visited and described. Minsk, Valletta,...

Martin Kihn Presents a programme for assholism, which includes: essential body language; workplace etiquette; diet and exercise; relationships; and, feelings. January 1, 2008 by Penguin Books

Laure Myracle Ty Perry’s second-grade life is crazier than ever. He’s trying hard not to worry too much, but that’s not easy when his brain is filled with so many thoughts, like...

Curtis Sittenfeld Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling.Over the next decade and a...

Peter Biddlecombe To businessman and travel writer Peter Biddlecombe, the USA is about food. Huge, enormous, vitamin-fortified, artery-clogging, fat-laden, calorie-packed, colon-blocking, microwaveable mountains of the stuff. In his ninth irreverent...

Peter Biddlecombe Peter Biddlecombe takes us on another irreverent global tour, snubbing his nose at the "gimmick tourists" and carrying on doing what he does best—business, all over the world,...

Mark Leyner ad Billy Goldberg, MD The Doctor Is In . . . Again!Did the mega-bestselling Why Do Men Have Nipples? exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or...