Product Description: [Read by Charlie Thurston]While covering an Idaho forest fire that has devastated a religious community, network news producer Kevin Manwaring investigates the fire's suspicious origins and becomes the prey of a clever killer.The network news crew flying out from Los Angeles to cover a forest fire in Idaho believe themselves entitled to danger pay...read more

Product Description: The network news crew flying out from Los Angeles to cover a forest fire in Idaho believe themselves entitled to danger pay. The blaze has completely destroyed a rural religious community and all its inhabitants and is still raging but that s not the reason they feel at risk...read more

Product Description: These eleven masterful storiesthe first collection from Pulitzer Prizewinning author Jennifer Egandeal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egans charactersmodels and housewives, bankers and schoolgirlsare united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience...read more

Product Description: The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah SilverglateDunn catch Joshs father and Khadijahs mother kissing in a natural foods store...read more

Product Description: Jazz is a likable teenager. A charmer. But hes also the son of a (now incarcerated) infamous serial killer, and Dear Old Dad (as Jazz calls him) has taught Jazz everything he knows. But what Jazz doesnt know is whether or not he is destined to follow in his fathers footsteps...read more

Product Description: Even prison couldn't stop former big-league pitcher Doc Miller from playing baseball. Jailed after a teenage girl overdosed on cocaine at one of his house parties, the former Detroit Tigers ace became a star at the Michigan State Prison, bringing home the institution's first Midwestern Penal System championship...read more

Baz has always dreamed about leaving his dusty little town, so when a stranger comes to his family s home and asks him to be a weaver s apprentice, Baz is eager to start his journey. He and the stranger travel for several sunrises and sunsets until they reach the land of Kallah, where Baz starts his apprenticeship and soon learns that his master is very cruel. Baz is disheartened, and when the master trades Baz to a magician for a sword, Baz expects no better from his new owner. But as Baz travels further into the depths of the desert with this kind-hearted and wise magician, he learns to reexamine his beliefs about people, the world, and himself, discovering that everything is connected in a continuous journey toward destiny and that no person or thing can ever really be owned."

Product Description: The MorelsArthur, Penny, and Willare a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthurs old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he becomes accidentally reacquainted with Arthur...read more

[Read by Various Readers] A memorable, highly personal anthology that lives up to the standards set by the late - and indisputably great - Poul Anderson. Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted storyteller, and the impact of his finest work continues, undiminished, to this day. Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds is a rousing, all-original anthology that stands both as a significant achievement in its own right and as a heartfelt tribute to a remarkable writer - and equally remarkable man. A nicely balanced mixture of fiction and reminiscence, Multiverse contains more than a dozen stories and novellas by some of today's finest writers, along with moving reflections by, among others, Anderson's wife, Karen; his daughter, Astrid Anderson Bear; and his son-in-law, novelist and co-editor Greg Bear. Bear's introduction, ''My Friend Poul,'' is particularly illuminating and insightful. The fictional contributions comprise a kaleidoscopic array of imaginative responses to Anderson's many and varied fictional worlds. A few of the highlights include: Nancy Kress' ''Outmoded Things'' and Terry Brooks' ''The Fey of Cloudmoor,'' stories inspired by the Hugo Award-winning ''The Queen of Air and Darkness''; a pair of truly wonderful Time Patrol stories, ''A Slip in Time'' by S. M. Stirling and ''Christmas in Gondwanaland'' by Robert Silverberg; Raymond E. Feist's Dominic Flandry adventure, ''A Candle''; and a pair of very different homages to the classic fantasy novel, Three Hearts and Three Lions: ''The Man Who Came Late'' by Harry Turtledove and ''Three Lilies and Three Leopards (And a Participation Ribbon in Science)'' by Tad Williams. These stories, together with singular contributions by such significant figures as Larry Niven, Gregory Benford, and Eric Flint, add up to a memorable, highly personal anthology that lives up to the standards set by the late - and indisputably great - Poul Anderson.

Product Description: In 1932, America was in the depths of a deep depression. A job, food to fill you, a place to sleep, and shoes without holes--for millions of people, these simple needs were nothing more than dreams. At 15 years of age, Josh had to make his own way through a country of angry, frightened people...read more

Product Description: Char, Weddy, and Nuell are excited over their discovery on the strange planet Pleisto but also terrified, for the leader of their expedition, Professor Joher, has disappeared. Nuell and Weddy, Joher children, are concerned for his safety, while Char, his research assistant, feels not only worried but responsible for all of them...read more

The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections ... but he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can't refuse. It's an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.

Product Description: Fourteen-year-old Chris Winchester is torn between two worlds. By birth, hes part of the indomitable Winchester clan, owners of the enormous electronics factory that employs nearly everyone in town. Yet Chris father gave up his stake in the business to work for the Peace Corp...read more