Oliver's Story by Erich Segal

"Reading  Oliver's Story, you'll forget  everything else until you've finished the last page.  What a rare storyteller."--Detroit  News.
"Oliver's Story is an expertly crafted  novel that will delight the vast audience that enjoyed  its  predecessor."--Cosmopolitan

This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade from Nebula winner Kessel (Good News from Outer Space), plays on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his-luck man thrown into extraordinary circumstances. "The Juniper Tree," the Tiptree-winning "Stories for Men," "Sunlight or Rock" and "Under the Lunchbox Tree," all tied to Kessel's lunar colony sequence, explore the limits placed on a man's life in a beautiful, woman-dominated city on the barren moon. In "Powerless," the only story original to the volume, a hapless inventor finally perfects a strange new power generator, destroying his relationships along the way

The Final Solution: A Story of Detection by Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon's The Final Solution, A Story of Detection is an exquisite book. Chabon, who reexamined the golden age of comics in the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, takes up the detective novel.

The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult

Picoult is a writer of high energy and conviction who has, in her fifth novel, brought to life a cast of subtly drawn characters caught up in a tragedy as timeless and resonant as those of the Greeks or Shakespeare. That is not to say that Picoult is anything but accessible; in fact, this psychologically shrewd tale is as suspenseful as any best-selling legal thriller.

THE TRUCK FARMER'S ELVES

The Truck Farmer's Elves

English-Spanish

 

Software with games, test, dictionary and a funny story for children.