Eleven stories deal with a man who meets the son he hasn't seen in six years, a father who listens to his runaway daughter's experiences, and individuals who, caught up in the problems of modern life, nevertheless find a way to go on

Trying to understand her family's past while seeking to define her own future, Matty Grover leaves her small hometown in rural Virginia and travels to the Arizona desert

Product Description: Containing over 100 exercises, Number Enigmas challenges even the cleverest number crunchers. For fun or for sport, these puzzles are perfect for car trips or airplane rides or even to find out who is the real puzzle wizard in the family...read more

Product Description: Containing over 100 exercises, Perceptual Puzzlers challenges even the cleverest puzzle solver. For fun or for sport, these puzzles are perfect for car trips or airplane rides or even to find out who is the real puzzle wizard in the family...read more

Product Description: There is no map of The Middle of Elsewhere. It's a territory bordered by Far Left Field and Off the Beaten Track, both in exterior and interior ways. The collection begins with a middle-aged couple venturing forth to reclaim their lost youth in the ghost town of Terlingua, Far West Texas...read more

Product Description: Britain’s Best Pubs features more than 300 traditional pubs, country inns, and gastropubs across the country, giving details of available accommodation, dining times, facilities, and breweries. It is the ideal guide for anyone who enjoys visiting pubs that offer good food and drink in a welcoming atmosphere...read more

Product Description: The archaeology of childhood has seen a remarkable surge in interest over the last few years; this volume presents updated papers from the conference which kickstarted that interest, held in Cardiff in 2005. Topics range from the purely theoretical, to case studies from the Dakhleh Oasis Project, Etruscan Tarquinia and Iron Age Austria, and articles on child burial in Bronze Age Europe, early medieval Wales and Anglo-Saxon England, as well as religious aspects of childhood and Norwegian bog burials...read more

Product Description: This title is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. On the outer deck of a North Sea ferry stands Futh, a middle-aged and newly separated man, on his way to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. After an inexplicably hostile encounter with a hotel landlord, Futh sets out along the Rhine...read more

Product Description: Lewis Sullivan lives less than a mile from his childhood home. His grown-up daughter visits every day, bringing soup, and he spends his evenings at his second favorite pub for half a shandy and sausage. But when an old friend appears, Lewis finds his comfortable life shaken up, and he longs for more excitement...read more