DescriptionWhen Toby Tobin's great-uncle dies, the will has some peculiar terms for Toby - $10 million, a trip to Ireland, ending a family feud, and a request to court his 8th cousin once removed, Sara Elizabeth Anne Tobin. Seeing a picture of the black-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned woman, Toby decides to proceed. Logging on to the Internet to make travel arrangements, Toby encounters an odd travel agent called Raphael, who is actually Raphaela, an angel who's online for human lessons. She becomes Toby's tart-tongued travel companion as his journey leads him to the meeting of his life, a centuries-old mystery, and more.
DescriptionEric Idle, one of the comic geniuses behind Monty Python, takes Edward Lear's brilliant poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" and turns it into a spellbinding journey for children of all ages. Join the Owl and the Pussycat on their hilarious quest to save the magical Bong Tree, encountering love and laughter all along the way. Meet fabulous felines, vile villains, precocious Pie-rats, and many more fanciful creatures in this action-packed adventure.
DescriptionWhen Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood first hit upon the discovery they called "the Food of the Gods" they thought, what harm could there be in a little scientific experiment? It might have some practical consequences. How could they forsee that the new scientific wonder would escape their control - that rats would grow big enough to attack and kill a horse, that gigantic leeches and plants and cockroaches would threaten human life? How could they know that the stolen Food would be fed to babies, and that a new race of giants would one day smash the puny, pygmy world of men?
DescriptionWhen we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged, but before the big event Kit convinces her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend. At the Waikiki Waters Resort, the body of Dorinda Dawes washes ashore.
DescriptionOnce a violent, primitive race, Vulcans renounced their warlike nature for logic. But a small faction established the Romulan Empire, where the old Vulcan way flourished. Now, deep in Romulan territory, an underground movement to reunite two worlds of com…
DescriptionThe justly famous, most excellent Martian Chronicles is a congeries of magnificent short tales, linked by a cleverer-than-thou framing mechanism intended to fool the eye 24 times a second, said The Los Angeles Times, after hailing Bradbury a…
