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From the well-hidden family secret of his childhood to his mysterious encounters with a small-town embalmer, an expert art restorer, a Bavarian countess, and various masters of espionage, the event

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller.

The kids in class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Though weak, she also wants to be independent.

Ehrenreich presents a fascinating look at one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime.

This collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist covers everything from astral life at the frontiers of astrobiology to the movie industry's feeble efforts to get

A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.

Miles has put his clone, Mark, in charge of a mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole. But the mission goes awry, and Miles' rescue attempt goes even more wrong.

During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjami

An invisible wall ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families from the Christians.

A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls.

One of the greatest works in literature, this allegory of the soul's journey from spiritual depths to spiritual heights is rendered through Dante's stunning visual imagination and exalted poetic to

Earth-scientist Rocannon has been living on a world shared by three native humanoid races: cave dwellers, elves, and warriors.

Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward.

Through decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, Boorstein has discovered that the secret to happiness lies not in monastic solitude but in cultivating our connections with the world.