The screenplay of the film starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Minnie Driver, about a janitor at MIT who turns out to be a mathematical genius. Winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

The first in a new series by Agatha Award winner Jeanne M. Dams features spunky Swedish-American immigrant Hilda Johansson. When Hilda discovers the body of a pious neighbor woman on the edge of the estate where she lives and works as a domestic, she fights a corrupt police force, a strict, class-conscious butler, and her own religious prejudices to catch the killer.

A fascinating exploration of an almost indefinable idiom, Stanley Dance's THE WORLD OF SWING composes a history of the technique that forms the magical essence of jazz. Dance's uses astute commentary combines with interviews with an intriguing cross-section of both well-known and unsung jazz musicians, ranging from the legendary drummer Cozy Cole to bandleader and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. Dance's impeccable jazz credentials (he worked with legendary bandleader Duke Ellington on his autobiography MUSIC IS MY MISTRESS) and insight into the world of the artists he interviews results in a variety of compelling reminiscences from personalities long since passed into jazz history. Coleman Hawkins talks about his influences and his contemporaries, while Dizzy Gillespie recalls with pride being the only outside musician allowed to sit in with the Chick Webb band, and Cole recalls the perils of playing in jazz bands during the days of Prohibition. THE WORLD OF SWING is an absorbing journey to the roots of jazz, conducted by many of the musicians whose work laid the foundations of the genre.

A fascinating exploration of an almost indefinable idiom, Stanley Dance's THE WORLD OF SWING composes a history of the technique that forms the magical essence of jazz. Dance's uses astute commentary combines with interviews with an intriguing cross-section of both well-known and unsung jazz musicians, ranging from the legendary drummer Cozy Cole to bandleader and vibraphonist Lionel Hampton. Dance's impeccable jazz credentials (he worked with legendary bandleader Duke Ellington on his autobiography MUSIC IS MY MISTRESS) and insight into the world of the artists he interviews results in a variety of compelling reminiscences from personalities long since passed into jazz history. Coleman Hawkins talks about his influences and his contemporaries, while Dizzy Gillespie recalls with pride being the only outside musician allowed to sit in with the Chick Webb band, and Cole recalls the perils of playing in jazz bands during the days of Prohibition. THE WORLD OF SWING is an absorbing journey to the roots of jazz, conducted by many of the musicians whose work laid the foundations of the genre.

A man buys a house for his girlfriend and her two children. When a new door appears in a wall, they find a space that appears to be infinite, even though the outside form of the house remains the same. In five expeditions, the characters explore this vast space, and each try is documented in a different kind of narrative, each in its own typeface. Constructed of these self-referential texts, this metafiction examines the effects of a possibly haunted house on a group of people, each one more peripherally involved with it than the last. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000 and nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.

This is the story of Sophie Caco, the daughter of a Haitian exile, conceived in an act of violence. When Sophie is 12, her mother--who had abandoned her--asks the girl to join her in New York.

Nineteen stories that introduce new worlds, including works by Paul Bowles, Diane Johnson, Harold Brodkey, Sue Miller, Alice Munro, Paul Theroux, Lorrie Moore, and more.

In this historical thriller, New York Times reporter John Darnton provides a unique (but entirely fictional) solution to the mystery of why Charles Darwin waited 22 years after he developed the theory of evolution to publish THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. The novel traces three storylines: Darwin's groundbreaking expedition on The Beagle, a journal by his daughter Elizabeth written some years later, chronicling her concerns about her father's odd behavior after that expedition, and a contemporary pair of scientists also seeking the real origin of THE ORIGIN, so to speak.