When her friend Louie Song disappears in the aftermath of an explosion, environmentally-inclined sleuth Venus Diamond sets out to discover what happened to him. She struggles with her complicated feelings for Louie while tracking the eco-terrorists who set off the explosion.

Two Jewish families migrate each summer to a small upstate New York town. Allegra Goodman details their frustrations, their hopes, their tensions, and their anguished interactions over the course of one summer. Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

When Joshua Ali Quare wakes up, he finds himself on Mars in 2109, years after his last conscious memory, with a mysterious appointment in only a few days. Piecing together his past from from the decidedly sketchy notations his former self left on a computer, he learns how his exceedingly violent tendencies were put to use as a soldier and enforcer by a cryptic group called the Organization. As his memory slowly returns, Quare sets off for the meeting, unsure how the past will affect his chances of surviving the present.

This book contains one long novella--the title piece--and two short stories, "Solitario's Eyes" and "The Arcevoalo".

Katharine Graham, as publisher of the Washington Post, knew Washington D.C. through and through and saw it from a special perspective. Here, she collects and comments on her favorite writings by the likes of Russell Baker, Joseph Alsop, Henry Kissinger, and others that reflect the history, social life, and unique personalities of the nation's capital.

In this Booker-Prize-nominated crime novel, a Midwestern small-town reporter named Bill looks into the disappearance and probable gruesome death of an elderly local man. When he and his nondescript newspaper are suddenly thrust into national prominence, Bill's life enters a period of unforeseeable chaos. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Allen Carmichael has been living on the edges of society since returning from Viet Nam. He has built himself a reputation by rescuing women and children from abusive relationships, but now, at 50, he is set to retire. When he takes one final case, though, things go disastrously wrong, and both Allen and the boy he is trying to save find themselves on the run from a very dangerous foe.

Two rival parties of highfalutin' academics travel into the Wyoming wilderness in search of fossil evidence of a particular extinct mammal. Leading one party is guide and adventurer Yellowstone Kelly. While his employers pant over their fossilized prize, Kelly worries about defending them from Indian war bands--and from a ruthless killer who is stalking them.

Toronto English professor Joe Barley is drawn into amateur sleuthing when his cleaning woman asks him to investigate the disappearance of another one of her employers, lap-dancer Rosie Dawn.