"On a September afternoon in Santa Barbara, a private jet carrying the members of Poor Ghost-one of America's most storied rock bands-plunges into the backyard of Caleb Crane, a retired insurance salesman. Poor Ghost moves back and forth between the impact of the plane crash on Caleb's life, and an oral history of Poor Ghost, from its beginnings as a working-class punk band to rock icons"--

Thirteen-year-old Quest (Q) isn't sure he's ready for a new family. For a long time it's just been him and his mom, Blaze. But everything changes when Blaze falls in love with Roger and they start a new rock band called Match. Now they're married, have a hit record, and Match is going out on a year-long driving tour across the country. Q, along with new stepsister Angela, will take a year off from school and travel with the band. For now, home will...

Welcome to Frog and his world. He enjoys nothing better than spending time floating in his pond or visiting with his friends. He appreciates the simpler things in life and would prefer that things stay just the way they are - nice and peaceful. From acclaimed children's writer Eve Bunting comes a new beginning reader series featuring the delightful Frog and his friends Rabbit, Possum, Raccoon and Squirrel. In the first book, Frog is alarmed when he...

AN INSTANT CLASSIC" -- ReadersFavorite.com "A THOUGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT WORK" -- OnlineBookClub.org "THIS SERIES HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE IT BIG" -- SFReader.com ";MORE THAN MERELY A GREAT STORY" -- LongAndShortReviews.com An exciting adventure for readers 12 and up. Adults: Share your love of science fiction with your child or grandchild. Young readers: share it with you parents of grandparents. When a former child prodigy unveils a revolutionary new technology,...

In this "coming-of-old-age" tale, Jack Peckham finds himself on a journey into his distant past, helped along the way by Joe Easterday, a young man with Down syndrome, and Ida Pevely, a middle-aged waitress with her own mountain of regrets. Jack has a hundred grand in cash that he can't explain, since he can't remember yesterday much less forty years ago. Setting out from Northern California for "points east," he gets lost, carjacked, abandoned, and...

Mitchell Gray is a man without color. Husband, father and workaday white-collar employee, he suddenly comes to realize that his life is woefully incomplete. A part-time pilot, he is offered the opportunity to ferry a small plane from coast to coast, a chance he seizes with the hope of finding the substance he lacks. It is to be a solo trip, a meditative respite over the American continent—a solo trip, that is, until he meets Maynard Bodell. A...

From the next generation of characters that have made Bluewater famous comes the most infamous of them all. Take youthful energy. Add in some over-active imagination. Mix in some powdered donuts. Sprinkle it with delusional disorder and you get Insane Jane! She's the kookiest action hero of the 21st century. Will Jane save the day? Will Jane destroy the world? Will she remember to take her medication?

Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The essays in this collection restore our understanding of the encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this, the essays...

Cartas a mi madre recoge los pasos vacilantes y hermosos de una mujer que desfil por la vida y el arte con pie de equilibrista, sabiendo que no haba red capaz de protegerla. Una crnica estremecedora de la lucha de una mujer por ser a la vez una artista innovadora y un modelo domstico. Su poesa, ficcin, diarios y cartas permanecern siempre vivos, atrevidos, urgentes y electrizantes. -Booklist Tan reveladoras como un diario, las cartas que Sylvia Plath...

"Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken but liberated by Paulina's departure. Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past,...