"San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are lost and half-orphaned, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father - a decorated WWII veteran - consumed by guilt and losing sight of his teenage children. Kip, a dreamer and swaggerer prone to small-time trouble, enlists to fight in Vietnam; Jeannie finds a seemingly safe haven in early marriage and motherhood. But when Kip is accused of a terrible military crime, Jeannie is seduced...

Hemmed in by steep hills, Glen Park is defined by its quintessentially San Franciscan topography. Only 120 years ago this area, as well as neighboring Diamond Heights, was part of the "Outside Lands," so isolated that only farmers would settle here. Life revolved around Islais Creek, which ran through the canyon and provided water for the dairies. Then, in 1892, a German immigrant named Behrend Joost founded the city's first electric streetcar to...

What are we doing this weekend?Your child asks this simple question, but you have no idea."We can use our membership at that science museum," you answer to a frown."Again?!" Weekends used to be great. An easy day out to the playground, a trip to the kid's museum... .. but now your kids want more. What new and interesting adventure can you put together at the drop of a hat? San Francisco is full of wondrous places to go, but you are drawing a blank....

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

When his father is charged with murder and refuses to do anything to prove his innocence, Will Robie returns as an outsider to his hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi--where is he is met with distrust--to conduct his own investigation.

Love dies when someone we love is cold hearted. Broken hearted we try to carry on but the pain remains. Although we pick up the pieces in a bid to move on we are left heavy hearted. The more we distrust others we are left hardhearted. The more we try to keep people out the more we place our hearts in chains. Only by loving others can our hearts be mended again. I am by no means a poet but this is the most succinct way I can explain why I wrote this...

"A novel of Israel today, a place where warring factions from within and outside the Middle East continue to battle for the soul of a land they all regard as holy"--Provided by publisher.

It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine....