How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our Behavior, and Set the Course of History
Allan Lazar
From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who...
In the sixth full–length novel in the beloved Harmony series, Pastor Sam Gardner takes a leave of absence from his post at Harmony Friends Meeting to take care of his ailing father. When a...
Dive into the sometimes sexy, sometimes sinister, always hilarious world of love and action figures in the toy industry with Eugenie Seifer, the quirky, smart new author for Avon Trade....
Infamy! Infamy! They’ve All Got It In For Me! Beginning with the feel-good conscription caper Carry On Sergeant (1958) and finishing up with the much-maligned sex farce Carry On Emmannuelle (1978),...
‘Thousands of years ago, Cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.’
Bursting at the seams with quotes, poems, jokes and stories, this book is a delightful celebration of the...
If any single novel of Kurt Vonnegut's can represent his unique voice and freewheeling imagination, it is probably the wildly funny and provocative Cat's Cradle, published in 1963. Though it might not...
This is the ultimate treat for chocolate lovers: with the history of the food of the gods to choco-myths and famous chocoholics; with choco-horoscopes, choco-games and choco-recipes. So go on, tear off...
The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Michael Korda
With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new...
The story of Doctor Who is the story of British television in the final third of this century. It is also the story of the hopes and fears of generations of children - and grown-ups too - from the...
