SUMMARY: Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler. On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterio...
Founded by Johns Hopkins University, the Meatless Monday” campaign counts among its fans Michael Pollan, Sheryl Crow, and Paul McCartney. From Baltimore Public Schools to the city...
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: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by ...
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...
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous ...
Amazon.com ReviewIn Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless ....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the acclaimed author of *A Breath of Fresh Air*, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer’s mango season. Heat, passio...