Another sparkling tale from the bestselling athor of Good In Bed and In Her Shoes, now with a fresh new look

Presents a story of a group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways.

Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. The author shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves.

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who recall their shared adolescence.

How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul.

A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner.

Graffiti, Race Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center. The 15th anniversary edition of this classic of unnderground literature.

Urban studies, economics, sociology, and political science perspectives on the exclusion from the suburbs of poor and minority populations. Provides a rationale and detailed program to address housing and urban problems.

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors.

A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web of evil and beyond - to the inexplicable.

Fifteen year old Doria is in the misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. Her father has gone off back to Morocco to find a wife who can give him a boy. This novel tells the story of Doria who is both clued up and innocent, acutely aware of what's in store for her and powerless to change it. She is funny, clever and tragically trapped.

The quintessential American suburbs, with their single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears. This work reveals how suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, by imposing a range of restrictions on the lots.

This volume provides portraits of rock and roll kids and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. It aims to draw new conclusions and to present solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead-end kids.

Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1955, the novel captured the mood of a generation. It was a sensational best-seller that was made into an award-winning film with Gregory Peck, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our vocabulary.

First scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

The kids are out of school, trying to start a band, trying to find work; looking for something to do within the degraded terrain of their suburban hometown. This novel captures the lyricalism of their lives in an intense story of friendship and betrayal.

It is 1968, the dawn of ethnicity, and though some nice Chinese girls are turning more Chinese, teenaged Mona Chan is turning Jewish, much to her parents' chagrin.

Poplar Street is just an ordinary street in an ordinary town, except there's something strange about Audrey Wyler's nephew. When the strange-looking vans arrive a surreal nightmare begins which threatens to turn the familiar street into a wasteland of devastation and desperation.

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then, there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, are turned inside out.