Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast...
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When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
A tormented mother grapples with feelings of accountability and intense grief after her troubled 15-year-old son commits an act of violence that shakes their community to its very core. Eva (Tilda Swinton) had a promising career when an unplanned pregnancy threw her life off-bala...
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dange...
The unstable life and relationship of a mother and daughter seems to be looking up with the opportunity of a fresh start, until the dark side of the American dream leads them to face the prospect of homelessness and tests their bond to the core.
After she is sent to small-town Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a manufacturing plant, a high-powered consultant from Miami finds her priorities changing.
"Both Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the U.S. embassy in Jordan, but that's about all the women have in common. After two years, Cassie's an expert on the rules of the Middle East. For newly arrived Margaret, the move is a chance t...
Fred Figglehorn is back in an all-new adventure, and his life has gone from kooky to spooky. Fred's beloved music teacher, Mrs. Felson, has disappeared, and Fred is convinced that her replacement, Mr. Devlin, has a secret life, as a vampire! And to make matters worse, Mr. Devlin ...
After she is sent to small-town Minnesota to oversee the restructuring of a manufacturing plant, a high-powered consultant from Miami finds her priorities changing.
A collection of interconnected stories relate the experiences of Fort Hood military wives who share a poignant vigil during which they raise children while waiting for their husbands to return.
A tormented mother grapples with feelings of accountability and intense grief after her troubled 15-year-old son commits an act of violence that shakes their community to its very core. Eva (Tilda Swinton) had a promising career when an unplanned pregnancy threw her life off-bala...
"Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true." -The New York Times "Prose that's brave and honest."- People "Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating." - The Washington Post An award-winning st...
In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls. You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, a...
School's out and Fred Figglehorn's dreams of waterslides, Clydesdales, and waffle bars turn to nightmares of gruel, poisonous berries, and Crocobear moose when his mom signs him up to the wrong camp.
A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone , about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. "A gripp...