This title is the product of wide-ranging research and years of on-scene reporting by a journalist offering his original view of Japan's economic and political ascendance. Demolishing the myth that Japan is a capitalist country on the western model, he says that Japan treats business as an instrument of national interest and shows how this system is, in turn, transforming the economics of other Asian countries.

Based on the enormously popular "Prairie Home Companion", Keillor's show on public radio, this collection of stories of modern Midwestern life skyrocketed to the top of the bestseller lists in the mid 1980s, and remained there. In this small Minnesota town, "all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." The book won the collective heart of the country, and critics found it impossible to refrain from quoting sizable portions of it in their reviews.

Young Gary, who has literary ambitions, comes of age in the ever-popular Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's sort-of-sequel to WOBEGON BOY.

As the year 1000 A.D. approached, Europeans feared the world would end. The old order was crumbling, and terrifying, confusing new ideas were gaining hold in the populace. Random and horrible violence seemed to sprout everywhere, without warning and without apparent remedy. And, in fact, when the millennium arrived, the apocalypse did take place; a world did end, and a new world arose from the ruins.

In SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISHER author Fred Waitzkin explored his relationship with his son--and in this work he examines his relationship with his own father. Reflecting on his childhood, Waitzkin shares his memories of his parents' troubled relationship, his father's ups and downs as a brilliant but ruthless salesman, and the special bond he and his father shared.