Gary: 4892 books

With real wit and heart, Gary Soto takes readers into the lives of young people in ten funny, heartbreaking tales. Meet Carolina, who writes to Miss Manners for help not just with etiquette but with bigger messes in her life; Javier, who knows the stories his friend Veronica tells him are lies,...

A gripping portrait of a notorious Vancouver gangster and Hells Angels elite who descended into a life of homelessness and addiction, ultimately redeeming himself through award-winning youth advocacy. As an outlaw biker living on the fringes of society Joe Calendino travelled the world, relishing...

The gentle, tranquil and calming poems in this book of poetry are inspiring and uplifting. These insightful and peaceful poems celebrate the themes of beauty, love, kindness and compassion.  The poetry extols the wonder of love set to romantic poetry. In the course of reading through the four...

Some things are so terrifying they are never meant to be disturbed. Short story

A collection of twenty poems, presented for your enjoyment, exploring the richness and variety of the natural world and our place in it. Topics include the power of the tides, finding one-self on waking, birds and butterflies, smelling the coffee, nautical yearnings, children, mortality, cyberspace...

India Fortunes is the award winning companion sequel to the epic historical novel India Treasures, which drew widespread praise both in America and abroad when published by Penguin India. A search for a maharaja’s legendary treasure weaves together novellas of major events and historical figures...

Jimuta, a poor farm boy in a remote part of ancient India’s great Mauryan Empire, finds and returns the huge war elephant Rudra belonging to his local prince. Most unusually, he is invited to become Rudra’s new driver. The elephant and boy form a close bond.They are sent on a long journey...

Summer, 1942: The con man known as David Walker didn't exactly volunteer, but OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan convinced him that serving his country and the cause of freedom by posing as German astrologer Peter Kepler was a better use of his time than going to prison for impersonating a Princeton University...

For fans of Gary Soto and Matt de la Peña comes a tale of a contemporary Mexican-American family with a "spunky and imaginative heroine" (Publishers Weekly). Miata Ramirez is scared and upset. The skirt she brought to show off at school is gone. She brought her forklorico skirt to...

A gentle romantic story with a paranormal twist. Karen meets writer George Randolph, and gets more than her book signed. She falls in love. But being second fiddle to George's writing as he totally immerses himself in his creative world, she wonders if their relationship can survive. Then the greatest story of George's career takes them into the dark realms of the paranormal.

LUNCH AT THE STORYTELLERS RESTAURANT is a magical collection of stories by a Master Storyteller, containing his best stories with a twist of the unexpected in a dimension of the outlandish/supernatural. These twenty finely tuned stories on individuals or couples are funny, grotesque and macabre while...

In response to recent world news headlines, The Secret of the Talpiot Tomb is a full-color text and visual presentation of the most compelling evidence for Jesus’ victory over death. Written by research professor Gary Habermas, considered by many to be the world’s leading apologist for the historicity...

As the American Civil War recedes into the past, popular fascination continues to rise. Once a matter that chiefly concerned veterans, separately organized North and South, who gathered to refight old battles and to memorialize the heroes and victims of war, the Civil War has gradually become part...

Gary Lemons’s The Weight of Light breaks down the wall between poet and reader and invites us to meditate with him on all things beautiful and ugly, in a way that makes us proud to be a part of the world. Lemons explores human and nonhuman relationships, dissecting them just enough to give us a...