Ryan Coolidge is in trouble. Though only in middle school, he faces criminal charges in the deaths of four adults at a secret government lab, and the prosecution is playing hardball. His only hope rests with his court-appointed lawyer, a... Read More

Odysseus’s trireme (the galley propelled by oars and sails) races across the turbulent waves, while Poseidon, his long red hair trailing, looks on from the corner of the book jacket. This scene provides a glimpse of the excitement to... Read More

With sheep on skates and a pig in the goal, the idea of a “farm team” is imaginatively reinvented in this hockey-themed Cinderella story. Farmer Stolski’s animals love to play hockey, despite the fact that they’ve failed to bring... Read More

Unfortunately, a lot of kids like the author grow up in unfavorable circumstances: born to a single mother in an impoverished home, living in a dangerous neighborhood, he started life with strikes against him. On top of everything else,... Read More

For many, work is just another four-letter word, the cause of much stress and aggravation and precious little else. The relentless pursuit of success and fulfillment leaves many people feeling empty and unfulfilled. Such was the case for... Read More

This couchbuster could be the tipping point for a second Freudian revolution. The first began in the privacy of a Viennese consulting room, where Sigmund Freud’s patient Anna O. coined the term “talking cure.” In a few decades,... Read More

One polar expedition goes terribly wrong: “in the last days the survivors tried to eat a lemming’s skull so old it crumbled in the hands of those who still had hands.” Such literature of misery, starvation, cannibalism, and death... Read More

Conventional wisdom has it that college-educated women account for the single largest segment of the book-buying market, with privileged thirty-somethings (single, married, or married-with-children) at the heart of this demographic: good... Read More