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With the end of his career in sight, veteran Boston goaltender Jean Pierre Savard and his teammate and best friend, Cam Carter, are working to fulfill their lifelong dreams of a Stanley Cup win before they retire, until a surprise late-season trade finds the friends pitted against each otther in a playoff series.

When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company’s billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to “buy” a seat on the state Supreme Court.

Drawing on interviews with the Supreme Court justices and other insiders, a look at the powerful, often secretive world of the Supreme Court offers profiles of each justice and how their individual styles affect the way in which they wield their power.

The host of the popular Colbert Report show celebrates the lighter side of the modern world’s most relevant issues, providing straightforward discussions of such topics as faith, politics, and how the author believes the country can reacquire its nerve.

Traces the author’s haphazard fairy-tale journey during which she rose from her small-town American origins to fulfill a dream of marrying into the British royal family, an effort that began at the age of six, when she met and began writing love letters to Elizabeth II’s oldest grandson, Peter Phillips.

A darkly whimsical, confessional memoir by the author of Oedipus Wrecked describes his increasing anxiety about his purposeless life, struggles with mental illness, and relationships with a series of dysfunctional girlfriends before returning to his family home, where he is disillusioned by his relatives’ perverse dynamics.

A woman forced into a plural marriage as a teenager with a man thirty-two years her senior describes the years of psychological abuse she suffered, her decision to escape with her eight children, and her successful battle with the church over custody of her children.

Left with an extraordinary sensitivity that allows him to determine the lies and deceptions of everyday life with a mere touch after the Great War, Bennett Grey lives a reclusive life until he is called in by the British government to find a terrorist.

After the Horde has destroyed their land, the Forest Dwellers choose four young recruits to become the Forest Guard and sends them on a mission to find the lost Books of History, works that control the destiny of their people and that are also sought by the Dark One.

Traces a San Francisco newspaper columnist’s life experiences as evaluated during her late thirties, describing her relationships with her husband, children, and Irish-American father before and during her battle with breast cancer.

Separated from his Japanese-American family and girlfriend by the interment practices of World War II, martial arts master Sam Hamada is recruited by the U.S. Army for a secret mission in Japan, where he finds himself torn between cultures.

Her marriage to Craig, an undercover Chicago cop, cracking under the stress of his job, Leslie McHugh launches her own investigation when $1000 mysteriously vanishes from their joint bank account and Craig cannot provide an explanation.

A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.

Owen has always been different, and not only because his father committed suicide, but he is not prepared for the knowledge that he has a mission to help the Wakeful — the custodians of time — to stop the Harsh from reversing the flow of time.

When a doting father decides to make an apple pie for his beloved daughter, an enjoyable day is had by all, including the hungry farm animals who hover nearby in the hopes of getting a slice of the super tasty treat!

Set entirely inside the mother’s womb, a developing baby explains what life is like in his limited surroundings as he sloshes around, listens to a reassuring heartbeat, and eagerly awaits the day he can finally come out and play with the rest of his loving family.

The daughter of a narcissistic and addictive mother shares the story of her life as it was influenced by her glamorous and charismatic mother’s ill-fated teen elopement, compulsive lies, and dependence on cocaine, narcotics, and sex.

Describing her twenty-year career at the forefront of the abortion war, a female physician describes growing up in working-class, rural Wisconsin, her personal ordeal of an unwanted pregnancy and its influence, her dedication to helping women through the abortion experience, the dangers she confronts, and her thoughts on the abortion debate.