“Hoofs pounding, the runaways veered to miss a pickup coming down the driveway,” the author writes. This near disaster is caused by twelve-year-old Ben Lucas’s “Great Idea”—to lasso a ground squirrel with an orange slipknot.... Read More

The overwhelming popularity of manga today among young people has had its effect on the graphic novel industry. An example of that is this Fanbook, a compilation of stories and interviews with artists and writers, assembled with stills... Read More

Tour guide of the night Kenji realizes that all is not well with his latest job when a piece of burnt human skin ends up stuck to his front door—and that’s just the beginning of his problems. The twenty-year-old protagonist is a... Read More

In an age when war is often high-tech and the enemy impersonal, the events of September 11 put terrorists and victims face to face in the narrow confines of four doomed airplanes. Fear, the brutal murders of people begging for mercy, and... Read More

Blinded at the age of eight in a schoolyard accident, Jacques Lusseyran (b. 1924) nevertheless managed to attend university and become a prominent teacher in his native France. A brilliant student, gifted with political courage and... Read More

Even if one has been born and raised in the glitzy lights of New York City, this newest novel by Abrams shares a side and history of New York that can only be experienced through the eyes of her character, Chloe. Chloe is a professor of... Read More

Anyone who’s ever supervised volunteers knows the sinking feeling when faced with one who just isn’t making the grade. How do you “fire” someone who is working without pay? This is just one of the often tricky issues facing... Read More