After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...

Clifford, a very big dog who always overdoes his good deeds, finds something to do that is his size. Clifford, the big red dog, sets out with Emily Elizabeth and their friend Tim to offer a helping paw to people in need.

"When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved -- plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With...

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Picked last for kickball, Amelia Bedelia gets another chance to prove her athleticism when her class holds a mini-Olympics.

Little Gorilla's family and friends try to help him overcome his special growing pains.

The puppy Biscuit makes friends with two kittens.

Covered hair, bun hair, party hair ... no matter your hair -- YOU are welcome anywhere!

"[Vaudeville actress turned Hollywood insider] Jessie's thrilled when Bruno Heilmann, a movie studio bigwig, invites her to a party. Shes even more delighted to run into a face from her past at that party. But the following day, Jessie learns that sometime in the wee hours of the morning both her old friend and Bruno Heilmann were brutally murdered. She's devastated, but with her skill as an actress, access to the wardrobes and resources of a film...

"With this anthology, everyday folk from Hispanic and Anglo cultures build a composite picture of life today and yesterday in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. The once isolated region has undergone rapid change. As new generations of Hispanics no longer speak Spanish, the culture of their forebears vanishes. And Santa Fe, once The City Different, is much like other cities now. And yet, despite the arrival of modernity, both city and region retain...