Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, semi-autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This comic monologue is for sons and...
In the story of a seemingly utopian city in a futuristic world, Jonas is singled out to receive special training from The Giver--who alone holds memories of pain and pleasure in life.
Using the lessons of Noah’s ark, Micheal Levine, founder and owner of Levine Communications, based in Los Angeles, offers a lighthearted approach to the serious business of taking stock, taking...
Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American P.I. who lives in New York City’s Chinatown, is hired for a simple job. She’s to deliver the ransom for a set of stolen sketches that comprise the inaugural collection...
In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A.S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with...
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal...
A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly grasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital’s doctors, some of the best in the...
Serial killer Gretchen Lowell is on the loose and Detective Archie Sheridan is hospitalized after his ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong. They've entered a detente of sorts-Archie agrees not...
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her...
