"Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Near and nbsp;San Diego and nbsp;authors and nbsp;Alexander and Lynn Goya detail the best hikes within an hour's drive of the greater Houston area perfect for the urban and suburbanite and nbsp;hard-pressed to find great outdoor activities close to home. and nbsp;Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs, a brief hike description, trailhead location, directional...

"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a...