On the eve of "Il Porto" gallery's opening, Kate Fujimori leaps across Venice's rooftops - an easy routine for an expert cat burglar like herself. But her well-planned heist of the gallery's featured painting, a famed Mona Lisa forgery, goes unc

How do formerly ethical people - and organizations - descend into moral meltdowns? And how do we recognize the signs? Marianne M. Jennings, professor of business ethics at Arizona State University, predicted the collapse at Enron and the fall of

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is renowned for its mystery and magic. What's the truth behind it all? Is the golden compass actually based in science? How does the subtle knife cut through anything? Could there be a bomb like the on

We've all seen the newspaper stories, watched the TV dramas unfold. They're everywhere, it seems: teenagers who shoot classmates in schools, who molest children, who commit suicide or cut themselves or give birth in secret and leave babies on do

Peg O'Crerieh is a wife, mother, creative writing instructor, and occasional resident of the Everview Residential Treatment Center, which she is once again preparing to leave. Awaiting Peg at home are her devoted family; the normal pressures of

That's how Vanity Fair described the record business turmoil of the 1990s, which moved the Warner Music Group -- the world's number one record company -- from the entertainment pages to the front pages. Suddenly, decades of riotous fun and boomi

In Team Spirit: A Field Guide to Roots Culture, popular culture critic Geoff Pevere tracks those trends - the attitudes and the thrusts that underlie boomer-businesses such as Roots - from the counter-cultural revolution, through label chic and

Drawing from her own experience and the recollections of more than seventy other granddaughters, Edelman constructs an eloquent, insightful narrative filled with stories of women who were each other's nurturers, confidantes, nemeses, and day-to-

While spying on her New York City neighborhood with a new friend, Annie, twelve-year-old Harriet decides that the only way to learn Annie's many secrets is to spy on her, as well. Ages 10 and up.

Turque, a Washington correspondent for Newsweek, unveils the true motivations, ideals, and idiosyncrasies of one of Washington's most inscrutable men. He looks at Gore's lonely childhood as the product of ambitious political parents who groomed

Make bathtime fun with this colorful and safe bathtub book featuring Little Toot!

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa has one last toy to deliver. But the reindeer have come down with terrible colds! Who can help Santa now? Why, The Little Engine That Could, of course!

Trivia lovers will rejoice over this reference work that is part bathroom read. This compendium of fascinating, quirky, and insightful tidbits offers knowledge on everything from sports and fashion to literature and architecture.

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to ta

Follows three years in the lives of seven talented, would-be filmmakers, documenting times of struggle, conflict, misadventure, and triumph in the movie business and sharing words of wisdom from established directors. SC, 359 pages.

Up-and-coming attorney Rebecca Verona is hired to defend a computer wizard accused of selling a chip to a foreign company--an act of treason, according to the U.S. government. But there is a major complication: according to a computer expert, th

Written in three parts, Charleston follows the lives, loves, and shifting fortunes of the Bells, saints and evil-doers mingled together in one unforgettable family, from the American Revolution through the turbulent antebellum years to the Civil

There are dozens of intelligence tests on the market, but you'll never know just how brilliant you are until you try Brain Builder... Not! Ages 9-12

Haunted by the demon that claims his soul, Gavril Nagarian must confront those who would destroy his world and all that he holds dear . . .

A complicated, prickly ex-police detective, recovering from a brutal attack of deadly acid, tracks her quarry through a London peopled by the pathetic and the poisonous, as she heads for something more chilling than loneliness, more savage than