While actor Robin Williams may have captured his madcap classroom antics in Dead Poets' Society he didn't uncover the other side of the author--Sam Pickering as one of our great American men of letters.
Probably, two of the oldest questions humans have asked themselves since they became conscious of their own existence and that of the world surrounding them are: Where did we come from and where are we going? These questions have been the subject of inquiry by both religion and philosophy for most of the time since then. It is only in the last few centuries that science has evolved to the point at which it could begin to contribute significant...
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. Toby Morris is 25 and ready for some excitement. Her job at a large toy company is long on stuffed animals, radio-controlled racers, and activity sets, but short on real satisfaction. When her former art school buddy lands a job at a local TV station and Toby t...
A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.S. mail. A chain of letters spreads terror from Florida to Washington, D.C., from New York to Connecticut, from the halls of Congress to the assembly lines of the U.S. Postal Service. Five people die, and ten thousand more line up for antibiotics to protect against exposure. The government, already outsmarted by the terrorist hijackers of 9/11, leaves its workers vulnerable and a diabolical killer on the loo...
