In terms of style, wit, and irony, there is no comparison between PEYTON PLACE and Joe Goffman's BUSH FALLS. But both books stripped away the facade of small-town propriety to reveal the private,...
One of Newbery Medalist Sid Fleischman’s most beloved books, this rip-snortin’ saga of a young man and his butler bound for California during the great Gold Rush was just made to be read by a full...
Unabridged Stories written by Mark Twain. The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Tom Quartz, The Story of the Old Ram, What Stumped the Blue Jays, Journalism in Tennessee, Carnival of Crime, Buck...
A cult classic in the United Kingdom since its first publication there in the 1970s, Don’t Point That Thing at Me is the first of a series of hilarious and dark-humored crime thrillers...
Christopher Buckley's comic thriller takes readers to the Arab land of Matar, where a philandering emir allays his restless wife by allowing her to start a TV network for Arab women. She is joined...
When Bingo falls in love at a Camberwell subscription dance and Bertie Wooster drops into the mulligatawny, there’s work for a wet-nurse. Who better than Jeeves?
The fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon is real to millions of A Prairie Home Companion fans, who tune in each week for the latest news about its strong women and good-looking men. Like...
or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a...
