Product Description: From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action-packed adventure about endangered animals and those who would protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T...read more

Product Description: Since this story's first appearance in 1820, generations of readers, young and old, have thrilled to the Headless Horseman galloping through the haunted woods of Sleepy Hollow. The rollicking tale of Ichabod Crane and his ill-fated courtship of Katrina Van Tassel has become a classic ghost story...read more

A powerful debut novel set in a threatened western landscape from the award-winning author of Refresh, Refresh. Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting memories for Justin Caves and his father, Paul. It's now slated for redevelopment as a golfing resort. When Paul suggests one last hunting trip, Justin accepts, hoping to get things right with his father, and agrees to bring along his son, Graham. As the weekend unfolds, Justin is pushed to the limit by the reckless taunting of his father, the physical demands of the terrain, and the menacing evidence of the hovering presence of bear. All the while, he remembers the promise he made to his skeptical wife: to keep their son safe. Benjamin Percy, a writer whose work Dan Chaon called ''bighearted and drunk and dangerous,'' shows his mastery of narrative suspense as the novel builds to its surprising climax. The Wilding shines unexpected light on our shifting relationship with nature and family in contemporary society.

Product Description: A powerful debut novel set in a threatened western landscape from the award-winning author of Refresh, Refresh. Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting memories for Justin Caves and his father, Paul...read more

Product Description: In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America...read more

Product Description: Identity Theftis a hard-boiled detective novella set on Mars. Cassandra and Joshua Wilkins are fossil hunters who have both recently transferred their minds into artificial bodies, but now Joshua has mysteriously disappeared. Cassandra must hire Alex Lomax, the only private detective on the Red Planet, to locate Joshua before sinister forces get to him...read more

Product Description: In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the fearful and elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on behalf of the local comandante...read more

Product Description: In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and Small Miracles, a screenwriter and playwright shares funny, poignant, deeply inspiring stories about communications from the other side. A beautiful memoir with uplifting lessons for everyone.

Product Description: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Anthony Heald] *Winner of the 2008 National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award 2009 Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen's re-imagining of the legend of E...read more

Product Description: One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man's fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship...read more

Product Description: Pete Ferry, high-school English teacher, witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an actual accident or just an imaginative way to engage his students? Why cant he stop thinking about Lisa?

Glen Runciter, head of an anti-telepathic security agency, has been killed. But now his employees are receiving bewildering messages from him in the unlikeliest places, and reality is warping in mysterious ways.

Product Description: Following its initial appearance in serial form, Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage was published as a complete work in 1895 and quickly became the benchmark for modern anti-war literature.

Product Description: This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how he rose to his unique position as comic genius and pre-eminent critic of American culture.

Product Description: This audiobook, read by Anthony Heald, is the Winner of the 2009 Audie® Award for Best Literary Fiction. Elmer Gantry is the portrait of a silver-tongued evangelist who rises to power within his church, yet lives a life of hypocrisy, sensuality, and ruthless self-indulgence...read more

Product Description: In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem...read more

Product Description: Read by Anthony Heald, this audiobook is the 2009 winner of the prestigious Audie® Award for Best Literary Fiction. When Elmer Gantry was published in 1927, it created a public furor. The book was banned in Boston and other cities, and there were threats of physical violence against the author...read more

Product Description: David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view--a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist...read more