Except Education describes what really happens inside of American public high schools.

Jake Morgan loves Las Vegas. Hes a 33-year-old ex-cop from Boston.

Gathering berries or information; hunting game, experience, or knowledge.

Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories.

Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield.

By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low.

In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmens conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry.

Any look at Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party requires an examination.

The joke? Toronto thinks its the centre of some multicultural universe.

Tired of the government taxing all of your hard-earned money?

Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things; we murder to dissect.

Miranda Blair, a writer about mysterious death cases, is investigating the death of a child.

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.

Buddhism passed into Japan from China and Korea about 1320 years ago, in or about the year A.D. 552.

What Do You Want Most? Is It Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness?

A successful man is always asked - What is the secret of your success? People never ask a man who is a failure, What is the secret of your failure?

Selecting his cut and uncut jewels from very various Buddhistic sources, Mr. Bowden has here supplied those who buy and use the book with rubies and sapphires and emeralds of wisdom, compassion, and human brotherhood.

Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre.

Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.

The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise.