Billy Strobe, a successful businessman who landed in prison after participating in an ill-advised scam, is released from jail. He sets about clearing the names of the two men he has loved most in his life: his father, an attorney who committed suicide after a professional disgrace; and Darryl Orton, a fellow convict who befriended him in jail. Billy's twin crusades soon put him in danger.

Set during World War II, this novel is about four black American soldiers caught in local partisan politics behind enemy lines in Italy when they are forced to expose a traitor in the town. One of them, Private Sam Train, becomes the protector of a small orphan boy who is deeply involved in the events.

Frank McCourt, the author of ANGELA'S ASHES and 'TIS, wraps up his trilogy of memoirs with this account of the 30 years he spent teaching in New York public high schools, from his rocky beginning as a young man teaching English in a vocational school to his eventual destination--the rarefied halls of the elite Stuyvesant School. Throughout, McCourt was continually devising clever schemes to catch students' interest (which often succeeded) and fighting against the red tape and stultifying restrictions thrust upon him by school bureaucrats (which often resulted in his being fired).

The only person who can save the life of 2-year-old Sam is his older brother Jonathan, away on an Arctic expedition. His widowed mother tries desperately to find Jon, and the question is not only: will he be found? but: will the bone marrow transplant save Sam's life, after all?

Fifteen-year-old Samantha is the family nonconformist. The middle child in a family of overachievers, Samantha feels stuck between her popular, cheerleading older sister, Lucy, and her genius younger sister, Rebecca. To further complicate matters, Samantha is harboring a crush an Lucy's pierced aspiring-artist boyfriend, Jack. Then one day Samantha foils an attempted assassination of the President of the United States and discovers that her own life has been forever changed.

Two brothers, one an executive at a bank & the other in an entry-level position, hatch a plan to steal three million dollars. But after the transaction has been completed, they quickly realize that rather than three million dollars, they have stolen 300 million dollars.

Tucked away in the arid New Mexico desert, Robert Doniger and his team of scientists develop a time machine based on the development of quantum technology. While Doniger envisions a lucrative monopoly on the tourism and travel industries, beloved Yale history professor Edward Johnston sees it as a chance to finally experience the subject of his scholarly profession. After getting his hands on a prototype of Doniger's time machine, Johnston is hurled back in time to Medieval France. Problems arise, however, when the aged professor gets stuck in this colorful alternate universe filled with fantastic castles, knights in shining armor, and beautiful damsels in distress. Anxious to redeem his ticket to fame and fortune, Doniger sends out a daring rescue team made up of two ex-military types and three of Johnston's university colleagues dressed in the latest Medieval styles complete with electronic sound pieces used for language translation. Soon after their arrival to the year 1357, the brawny military guides are slaughtered by horse soldiers hired by an evil English nobleman who has mistaken Johnston for a sorcerer and kidnapped him. Now it's up to the academics to save the professor and find a way back to the twentieth century.