Drawing on unprecedented access to previously unknown or unavailable Russian-language sources, including extensive archival material, Harlow Robinson traces Prokofiev's extraordinary life from the fairy-tale world of Czarist Russia, through his many years abroad in America and Europe, to his perlexing permanent return to Moscow in 1936 under the Soviet Regime. That Prokofiev died on the very day as Josef Stalin, his principal persecutor, was the final irony of his intense and enigmatic career.

    The son of a royal musician tries to prevent Lady Ysene and her brother from using their evil powers to gain control of the kingdom of Darai.

    The popular lead singer of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister presents his own down-to-earth yet sensitive guide for teenagers that addresses a teenager's relative concerns.