Tom Shachtman Science and experimentation were at the heart of the Founding Fathers' philosophies and actions. The Founders relentlessly tinkered, invented, farmed by means of scientific principles, star-gazed, were fascinated...

John Bloom In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of...

Author: Barbara Vine Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand, house, Lydstep Old Hall,...

Sarah Chana Radcliffe Learn the secret to a happy home life!Eliminate yelling, criticism and other unpleasant communications.Gain your kids' cooperation the "less stress" wayFollow this book's gentle, practical advice and...

Maggie Stiefvater Even if Blue hadn't been told her true love would die if she kissed him, she would stay away from boys. Especially the ones from the local private...

Danielle L Jensen A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. And the...

Toni Morrison A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.Jacob is...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the...

Holly Jackson Everyone in Fairview knows the story.Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone...

Jose Saramago Here is the corrected grammar: Despite the heavy rain, the presiding officer at polling station 14 finds it odd that by midday on national election day, only a...

Dreda Say Mitchell A girl must reconnect with her outlaw roots in the second book of this gritty female thriller trilogy Daisy Sullivan's father was one of London’s most infamous gangsters. Haunted by...

Aleksandar Hemon The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--showcases Aleksandar Hemon's celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story...