Sam and Charlie and Charlie's sister, Sam Too, play in the snow, plant trees, celebrate Jewish holidays, and make new friends.

The all-too-human individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's biggest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Sam, two Long Island teenagers seduced by downtown's nascent punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his spunky, West Coast-transplant neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what they all have...

A collection of true stories about remarkable dogs who have performed heroic feats.

After losing his restaurant, chef Clay Maguire must start all over. This time at the bottom. Pushing forty with no other skills, Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. He soon meets others who share his plight. He meets Liz who traveled in the Peace Corp; Bob who was a manufacturing engineer and at 64 is too old to get hired elsewhere; and Charlie, who's job as a corporate hiring manager is so miserable that he...