The author combines some of her best loved essays with new pieces. Her topics range from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, she writes about the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. -- adapted from cover.

"The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird. Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on the hunt for a boy who's gone missing, but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. Nine-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him -- and all goes dark. Darren Matthews is trying to emerge from...

In the year 2040 after pollution and mysterious earthquakes devastate Tokyo, Ken Ando seeks to join an elite team of environmental protectors called DC.

Avi Hoffman's award winning one-man musical comedy revue; a delightful exploration of Jewish music, humor, culture, language, and nostalgia.

August 1992. A valley lost somewhere in the East, blast furnaces that no longer burn, a lake, a hot summer afternoon. Anthony is fourteen, and with his cousin, to kill the boredom, he decides to steal a canoe and see what happens on the other side, on the famous beach of the naked butts. At the end, it will be for Anthony the first love, the first summer, the one who decides all the following. It will be the drama of life that begins. With this book,...