DescriptionMaxine, short and stocky, with her dark glasses and strange hat and weaving walk, was called the crazy lady. Ronald, with his eyes open wide and his mouth always parted as if he were about to speak, was her son with special needs. Vernon and his friends would agitate them until they put on a kind of show. But then Vernon gets to know them and he sees what their life is really like. He spends an afternoon helping them straighten out their ramshackle house, picking up their littered yard; and sits with Ronald while he watches Lassie and Mickey Mouse Club . And he begins to understand this mother's fierce love for her son, his own loss, and the unexpected strength he finds within this odd little family.
DescriptionEllen Burstyn has always defied expectations. Born in Detroit during the Depression, she left home at 18 and became a model for J.L. Hudson, Detroit's largest department store. After a failed marriage and a string of unsatisfying relationships and jobs, B…
DescriptionThe life of the ruthless Mongol conqueror of the late 12th and early 13th centuries. This profile traces his military successes from northern China through Russia and Eastern Europe. His conquests created one of the largest empires the world has ever known.
DescriptionGina Kolata, science reporter to The New York Times, takes a fascinating journey into the fads, fictions and genuine innovations that have defined the world of physical fitness. By examining fads through the decades, from weight lifting for men a…
DescriptionLew Fonesca is still a freelance process server, still has his office behind a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, and is still the friend of the poor and outcast. Now, he has two more cases he doesn't want, cases that will lead unerringly to the discovery of murder. In one of them, he must stop Adele Tree, the runaway teenager he saved from vice in Vengeance, from destroying the unpublished manuscripts of a famous reclusive author. In the other, Lew accepts the aid of his armed friend Ames McKinney in tracking down the lost sister of a penniless man.
