Jeff Woodman

A successful journalist, Victoria Griffith makes her first foray into children's fiction with the story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, the larger-than- life Brazilian who many argue flew before the Wright brothers. It was 1906 in Paris when Alberto, challenged by a fellow inventor, turned his dirigible into a flying machine and cemented his place in the history of flight.

Best-selling author Nancy Bell adds to a delightful Lone Star series that began with a People Pick of the Week. A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table-with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old grandson JR investigate the murder. But as the suspect list swells, JR believes Biggie cares more about detecting...

Jim Walker is a Senior Pastor with the Evangelical Free Church and a popular conference speaker. He sets this riveting mystery against the backdrop of the most famous shipwreck in history. Morgan Fairfield has been given two things: a locked briefcase and a ticket for the maiden voyage of the Titanic. In the briefcase is information vital to the American War Department. To deliver the message, Morgan will have to restore his wavering faith and survive...

Eleven-year-old Parkington Waddell Broughton knows he is the fifth person to bear this family name, but he doesn't know much more about his relatives. His father died in the Vietnam War when Park was an infant, and his mother refuses to talk about his father's life or his family. Finally, Park convinces his mother to let him visit his grandfather's farm in Virginia. The boy hopes he will find answers to his questions there. But his grandfather is...

Biggie Weatherford, the Miss Marple of Job's Crossing, Texas, is back in this sequel to best-selling author Nancy Bell's hilarious Biggie and the Poisoned Politician (S1085). This time around, Biggie tries to discover who killed the mortician. Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks off gay police deputy Butch Jenkins' cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes-until Aunt Vita straightarms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile,...

Part memoir, part extended essay, Visions and Revisions is a revolutionary look at the 1990s AIDS epidemic from “one of our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today” (San Francisco Chronicle). Reminiscent of Joan Didion's White Album or Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions is a collage-style portrait of a tumultuous era that puts the listener on the streets of NYC during the early '90s AIDS crisis, also touching...

Folsom, New Mexico is young Jim Stanton's new home. His father has been given a wonderful job at Folsom National Laboratories. The company has provided the Stantons with everything they need, including a fabulous house and even a brand new car. The only trouble is that it all seems a little too perfect. Curious, Jim goes hiking in the nearby mountains, where he meets a strange girl and her father. Their warning about what the Stantons will have to...

Cliff Abernathy is 11 years old, but he's not an ordinary elementary school kid. As the oldest in a family of six children, he has a lot of responsibilities-and patience. When Cliff looks back over the last year, he has plenty of stories to tell about his parents, his four brothers, and his sister, especially since the Abernathys like to do everything together. Through holidays and weekdays, ups and downs, Fig Pudding brings you into the busy world...

Twelve-year-old Charley Quinn is a Bowery Boy. He feels tough, clever, and ready for adventure. When he gets a chance to join a New York regiment marching to battle in the Civil War, he is happy to go along. Charley is too young to be a soldier, so he is trained to be a drummer boy. No amount of drumming, though, can protect him when the bullets start flying. Frightened and sickened by the blood, Charley runs. As he scrambles for safety in the Virginia...

At bedtime, Stephen brushes his teeth and puts on his pajamas. Then he sits on top of the bed. He hugs his knees to himself and watches the bedroom doorway. He is too scared to sleep. What will he do if a shark appears? "Impossible!" says his mother. But still Stephen watches. Maybe a shark will get tired of living in the ocean. Maybe that shark will come to his house tonight. With this hilarious story, Winifred Morris shows youngsters they can face...