A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life. Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you...

"Jack is at the top of his game. He's a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life. When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he's ever worked for?"--Provided by publisher.

A shipwrecked man is transported to an island where a mad scientist is conducting macabre experiments to create men out of animals. Will he be the next victim of experiments?

There's always something happening with the Bar-20 gang. For instance, there's the matter of the ghost of San Miguel Canyon who everyone agrees is the ghost of Carlos Martinez who was murdered long ago. But why does he show himself only on Friday nights -- and only to a Mexican? Hopalong Cassidy suspects there's a devious and practical reason. Then there's the day Hopalong rides into Rawhide and learns about its self-appointed ruler who is thought...

Emma Wheaton has interrupted her successful stage career to attend her dying father, David Wheaton. The legendary actor is obsessed with an unfinished play about the Old Testament King David written by Emma's estranged husband. As his family - itself of biblical proportions, because David Wheaton has had nine wives and eleven children - gathers, the stories of both Davids and their women are simultaneously woven together and unraveled. For Emma, being...