"A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny. United by the stark and sprawling landscapes of California's...

Madcap revisions of familiar fairy tales.

The Return Journey--The Wrong Suitcase--Miss Vogel's Vacation--The Home Sitter--Package Tour--The Apprenticeship--The Business Trip--The Crossing--The Women in Hats--Excitement--Holiday Weather--Victor and St. Valentine--Cross Lines--A Holiday with Your Father.

"A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the...

A collection of 17 short stores by two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game-- and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing...

The plague cellar--When the Devil was well--Edifying letters of the Rutherford family--An old song--A lodging for the night--Willo' the mill--The sire de Maletroit's door--The Suicide Club : Story of the young man with the cream tarts ; Story of the physician and the Saratoga trunk ; The adventures of the Hansom cabs--The Rajah's diamond : Story of the bandbox ; Story of the young man in holy orders ; Story of the house with the green blinds ; The...

Monsieur Shoushana's lemon trees-The stations of the cross-Betrayal-Death before dishonour-the river and the red spring moon-James Miranda Barry-The women alone-The crew from M6-The storm-The glass porch-Gramsci and the sparrow-Aria Nova-The arrival matters.