SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per...
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From Publishers WeeklyLarsen's competent debut has many of the right ingredients for a successful spy thriller: plenty of action, technical detail that would do Tom Clancy proud, a...
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and ...
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Breathtaking in its scope and vision, the international bestselling saga begun in The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist has been compared with Dune, Hy...
From Library JournalA mixture of American and British characters fill this living room style mystery in which a joker's increasingly dangerous pranks parallel the more interesting ...
SUMMARY:Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he d...
Product DescriptionThe quest to find a friend whose life hangs by a thread leads James and Jiron back into the heart of the Empire. The impetus behind the hunt is not as it would s...