Product Description: It's 1962, a year after the death of Sam's father--he was a war hero--and Sam and her mother must move, along with their very liberal views, to Jackson, Mississippi, her father's conservative hometown. Needless to say, they don't quite fit in...read more

Product Description: There’s nothing All Star pitcher Peter Friedman loves more than baseball. It’s his life. He breathes baseball, dreams about it, and works his tail off to be great. Most kids are nervous about starting high school, but Pete’s amazing arm is going to make his life pretty easy...read more

Product Description: Whether they joined the Yearbook Club or they were asked to participate by cranky school counselor, Mr. Crandall, the YC girls become fast friends. Kiki, Marnyke, Nishell, Sherise, and Tia are best friends forever. But all BFFs have their differences...read more

Product Description: Following his dad’s death, Remington James returns to the small North Florida town where he grew up to assume his father’s life—taking care of his dying mother and running the local gun and pawn shop.One fateful fall evening, as the sun sinks and the darkness expands, Remington ventures deep into the river swamp to try out some new equipment and check his camera traps...read more

Product Description: A fictionalized autobiographical account (recalling J. M. Coetzee's Summertime and Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana) The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass at his best...read more

[Translated by Krishna Winston][Read by Stefan Rudnicki] A fictionalized autobiographical account (recalling J. M. Coetzee's Summertime and Umberto Eco's The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana) The Box is an inspired and daring work of fiction. In its candor, wit, and earthiness, it is Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass at his best. ''Once upon a time there was a father who, because he had grown old, called together his sons and daughters -- four, five, six, eight in number -- and finally convinced them, after long hesitation, to do as he wished. Now they are sitting around a table and begin to talk. . . '' In a great literary experiment, Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhoods, of growing up, and of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their lives. Memories contradictory, critical, loving, accusatory -- they piece together an intimate picture of this most public of men, a shadowy but loving figure. There is one constant though: Marie, a family friend and photographer whose snapshots taken with an old-fashioned Agfa box camera provide the author with inspiration for his novels. But her images offer much more; they reveal a truth beyond the ordinary detail of life, depict the future, tell what might have been, and grant the wishes, in visual form, of those photographed. Marie's camera thus becomes a way for Grass to speak in the voices of his children's hidden selves -- their dreams, their disappointments, their secret desires and fears -- and to see his own life from unexpected perspectives.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Best friends Lena and Abby find an old Polaroid camera in a trift store and they can't wait to try it out. But the photos that develop are troubling -- things that weren't really there appear in the pictures.

Product Description: Click. Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake’s world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. “That’s my mom!” gasps Marissa. Click. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus...read more

Product Description: Living alone with his silent father and the shadow cast by his long-dead mother, Dustin waits, wanting only to slip under the radar and survive what’s left of high school and through his work at the photo lab. Then one Sunday, a single photo gets stuck in the processor and it changes everything: the bike in the picture is decent—a Ducati Monster 620, cherry red—and the woman, Terri Pavish, beside it is striking too...read more

Product Description: Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a relatively common psychological problem, whose symptoms may include repeated checking, excessive hand-washing or other cleaning rituals, extreme slowness, or unwanted, repugnant intrusive thoughts...read more

An alien armada of Zentraedi spaceships intend to destroy the Earth unless the Super Dimensional Fortress, SDF-1, can stop them