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Strange Medicine A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages - Nathan Belofsky
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. ReviewPublishers Weekly-Belofsky (The Book of Strange and Curious Legal Oddities) conjures... -
Physics of the Impossible_ A Scientific - Michio Kaku
From Publishers WeeklyIn this latest effort to popularize the sciences, City University of New York professor and media star Kaku (_Hyperspace_) ponders topics that many people reg... -
Water_ The Epic Struggle for We - Steven Solomon
From Publishers WeeklyThis sprawling text reconstructs the history of civilization in order to illuminate the importance of water in human development from the first civilizations ... -
Track of the Cat - Nevada Barr
From Publishers WeeklyThe texture, scents and sounds of the West Texas wilderness permeate this forceful debut, in which the murder of a National Park Service ranger illuminates th... -
terror_ a novel, The - Dan Simmons
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Hugo-winner Simmons (_Olympos_) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written.... -
Letters of Transit_ Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss - Andre Aciman
"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters of Transit have w... -
_Live From Cape Canaveral__ Cov - Jay Barbree
From Publishers WeeklyNBC TV reporter Barbree will be a familiar figure to many readers for his frequent appearances on the Today show and his decadeslong coverage of th... -
Zoya - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyWith the emotional panache that pleases her devotees, Steel (Kaleidoscope) portrays Zoya Ossupov, a courageous young woman of Imperial Russia who experiences ... -
Zero Day_ A Novel - Mark Russinovich;Howard Schmidt
From Publishers WeeklyMicrosoft computer guru Russinovich's first novel, a cautionary tale about the imminence of the great cyber attack to wipe out the Internet, works pretty well... -
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Kay (_The Last Light of the Sun_) departs from his usual historical fantasies to connect the ancient, violent history of France to the presen....