Mr. Palomar\"Beautifully nimble, solitary feats of imagination.\" Seamus Heaney \"Beguiling.\" Time A superbly crafted novel about one mans quest for order and reason in a chaotic and unreasonable world Mr. Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry

she was a quiet

Immigrant Experience: Adam Reed is a Polish orphan who sees basketball as his passport to a new life and a chance to overcome a difficult past

but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable

the paranormal stirs heated debate

But when she begins to have terrible dreams about the people who come to see the circus every night

Ant tries to lighten the mood

Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present an unsettling portrait of this tangled American life

or a mother concerned for her daughters’ well being

They paint the town’s water towers with red anarchy symbols and hang out at the local bus station to pickpocket money for their Great Escape to New York

nineteen-year-old Emma Bau is forced to disappear underground when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland

Inspirational Memoir: Rob shares his powerful story of overcoming a fatherless childhood

and Robert Downey