SUMMARY: Cassidy Outlaw left her high-powered legal job-and the unscrupulous lawyer fiance who broke her heart- to return to Texas. Here, life is simpler and the people more authen...
SUMMARY: Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's...
SUMMARY: Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, t...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart*, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war, pow...
SUMMARY: Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to he...
SUMMARY: His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged ...
SUMMARY: What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in th...
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa
With an introduction by Robert J. SawyerThe Man Who Folded Himself is a classic science fiction novel by award-winning author David Gerrold. This work was nominated for both Hugo a...
Since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death, other mystery writers have produced innumerable new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Veteran editor Mike Ashley has compiled the biggest col...