Chabon, Michael

The ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for the magical Little League baseball field Summerland, recruit Ethan Feld, one of history's worst baseball players, to help them in their struggle to save the field, and ultimately the world, from giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures.

A collection of short fiction includes the story of a boy's attempt to help a troubled classmate, a couple's bizarre visit to a real estate broker, and a young archaeologist's research in an American town.

In an alternate world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.

Linus Steinman, a 9-year-old mute refugee from Nazi Germany, and his number-spewing parrot appear to be at the center of a mystery in the 1944 English countryside.

A young superhero describes his awesome powers, which he then demonstrates as various foes arrive on the scene.

Two odd travelers who make their lives as swindlers and hired killers in the Caucasus Mountains in A.D. 950 get hired by a young royal whose throne was usurped by his uncle. Rather than the small-scale scrapes they're used to getting into, this feat will require raising an army and possibly starting a revolution.

A collection of comics chronicling the exploits of the superhero Escapist.

Michael Chabon chronicles the experiences he had during his first postgraduation summer.

When James Leer, a troubled young writer, becomes obsessed with Hollywood suicides, he begins a series of madcap, startling adventures.