"Here, finally, is an upbeat, honest look at the experience of a mixed-race child, based on the author's and artist's experiences. Kids love to touch Mike's hair. They sometimes ask him to choose 'sides' between hanging out with black kids or white kids. But Mike just wants to be...Mike! Sure to be a staple in schools and in family libraries, here's a book that's fun to read aloud and to look at, by a dynamic team who knows first-hand that mixed-race...

A father reassures his young son that although they cannot always be together, he misses his baby boy and always thinks about him.

Elmore Leonard's latest, When the Women Come Out to Dance, is a collection of short sketches that feature strong female characters in trouble. "Sparks" describes a flirtation between an insurance investigator and a widow who has apparently burned down her own mansion in the Hollywood hills. The riveting title piece involves a rich Pakistani surgeon's wife, a former stripper who's terrified that her playboy husband will have her killed once he gets...

Murderesses on death row, Velma Kelly and Roxy Hart vie for fame and freedom in Chicago during the 1920s.

A group of hip and outrageous people embark on a wild, late night ride that won't end until the sun comes up.

At a fifteen year reunion over the Christmas holidays, a group of college friends soon discover how simple it is for old rivalries and romances to resurface.

When a drill instructor and several of his cadets disappear during training exercises in Panama, a U.S. DEA agent is called in to investigate the mysterious disapperance.

Dylan Dog is a world famous private detective who specializes in the supernatural. Armed with an edgy wit and carrying an arsenal of silver and wood-tipped bullets, Dylan must track down a dangerous artifact before a war ensues between his werewolf, vampire, and zombie clients living undercover in the monster-infested backstreets of New Orleans. "...unique personality of its own."--Variety "Some entertaining inventiveness..."--Boston Globe

In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders"...