" ... the future of man and the automobile ..."--Front wrapper. Each story preceded by 1-3 paragraphs of commentary.

The Value of Coconut Macaroons & Other Stories is a quick read with a deep message. It is the story of an educator's journey in the academic field, but it is much more. It is the story of learners of all ages, from youngsters in middle school, to a grandmother who fulfills her dream of earning a high school diploma. It reaches into the hearts of the individuals presented in the stories and shows the real people, not just how one might perceive them to be. The people featured in The Value of Coconut Macaroons are from diverse backgrounds, who teach the life lessons of resilience, compassion, generosity and caring through their relationships with one another. It is a multiculutural book based on learning, loving and growing together as a human family. This book isn't just for educators; it appeals to all, because it is a story of people. It is unforgettable and will provide new meaning every time you read, and reread, the stories.

This authoritative biography of film icon James Dean offers a clear-eyed look at the actor who crossed America's cinematic landscape with the brilliance and brevity of a meteor.

Surf's up! Make the summer scene for friendship, fun, adventure, and mystery that fill the pages of Sinister Summer: Cars, Cruisers, and Close Calls, the second volume in a four book series, The 1950s Adventures of Pete and Carol Ann. Join two eleven-year-old, All-American, Southern California kids, Pete and Carol Ann, for patriotic fun and trips around the Southland. Follow them as they set off fireworks on July Fourth, learn to surf at Huntington Beach, ride horses in Lytle Creek Canyon, visit Tarzan's jungle at the Los Angeles Arboretum, and have a blast at a backyard Hawaiian luau. Near their hometown of El Monte, California, teenagers cruise "flat out" with lots of horse power under the hoods of their "hopped-up," flame-painted hot rods. Pete and Carol Ann cruise along with them on Route 66 during July of 1955 to Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Van Nuys. Can they avoid Butch's midnight-blue Merc? Can they discover who's starting fires all over town? Both friends, and a beagle puppy, search for safety and peace in their 1950s world of bullies, crime, and close calls that turn their summer vacation into an outrageous, risky adventure where danger lurks both on and off of America's roadways. Like wow! Ages eight and up will enjoy this fast-paced, historical-fiction chapter book that shares the excitement of a sensational summer.

From the best-selling author of Case of Lies and other Nina Reilly thrillers comes a collection of crime and suspense stories, many never before published, including "The Long Walk," "Success Without College," "The Couple Behind the Curtains," "Juggernaut," "The Furnace Man," and "To Still the Beating of Her Heart." Reprint.

An annotated bibliography and criticism on Wolfe's science fiction and non-fiction writing.

A chance meeting at a seedy south-side Chicago sports bar will lead sometime sleuth Dillon McDonaugh into a tight tale of intrigue, obsession and violence. When the under-aged daughter of a United States Senator enters McDonaugh's life, he sees her as the only means out of his current financial dilemma.Accepting a cash retainer, McDonaugh delves his into his client's checkered past and her obsession with a mysterious sex club called The New Roman Empire. The hunt for the club will take McDonaugh to an uptown brothel, a suburban sanitarium and finally to an abandoned steel mill, where he is nearly incinerated by an arsonist determined to throw him off the trail.When his client turns up dead, McDonaugh becomes the police's prime suspect and the target of the real murderer who is bent on keeping both his identity and the location of The New Roman Empire a dark secret.