Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money PB_Gift_Guide Michener weaves together the exciting

Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska’s story: its brutal origins

and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly

explorers and clever common folk

to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions

the nation’s highest and most prestigious military decoration

Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money PB_Gift_Guide Michener weaves together the excitingIn this dazzling literary debut, Rebecca Curtis displays the gifts that make her one of the most talented writers of her generation. Her charactersyoung women struggling to find happiness, love, success, security, and adventurewait tables, run away from home, fall for married men, betray their friends, and find themselves betrayed as well. In "Hungry Self," a young waitress descends into the basement of a seemingly ordinary Chinese restaurant; in