New Releases by William Kotzwinkle

The gentle extraterrestrial''s return to his home planet discloses that he has fallen out of favor with his colleagues, who try to prevent his journey back to Earth to provide spiritual guidance for his young friend, Elliott.

A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother''s vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.

A mysterious presence transforms the lives of a tyrannical chief executive officer, a nice young woman, a Santa Claus with an unsavory past, an earnest young man, and a spaced-out window decorator on Christmas Eve in Fontaine''s department store.

Jack Twiller, a young man from a small mining town, comes of age in the comic-book culture of America in the 1940s and 1950s

The story of a couple''s struggle to come to terms with the death of their newborn child.

After being sold at the family''s yard sale, Walter is put to use blowing up balloons for a clown who is bent on robbing banks, but he escapes and becomes a hero.