In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out in 1805 on a secret mission to overthrow the government ... Read More

"A collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books ... Read More

The Historian (June 2005), an historical mystery based upon the legend of Dracula and the actual life of the barbarous medievel ruler, Vlad the Impaler, is currently riding atop the ... Read More

The current U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of ... Read More

The war against Voldemort is not going well. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet, ... Read More

Author M.J. Rose has hit upon an interestingly benevolent marketing campaign that she calls Good Books / Good Cause. For every blogger who blogs about her psychological suspense novel, ... Read More

With his classics of social commentary The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler established himself as a leading commentator on American space and place. Now, in The ... Read More

Sue Monk Kidd, author of the bestselling The Secret Life of Bees, is back with her second novel, The Mermaid Chair. Jessie Sullivan returns to Egret Island,off the coast of South ... Read More

With less than 2 weeks left in the countdown to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) and amidst rumors that Hogwarts Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, won't live to ... Read More