EDITORIAL REVIEW: **WELCOME TO THE SECOND “GOLDEN AGE” OF SUPERHEROES AND HEROINES ** Superheroes have come a long way since the “Man of Steel” was introduced in 1938. This brillia...
SUMMARY: Theron, the leader of an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from the Underworld--and who also is the 200-year-old descendant of Hercules--must find t...
From Library JournalWeis and Hickman return to the world of the "Darksword" trilogy in this heroic fantasy, which measures up to its predecessors. After the fall of Thimhallan, its...
From Publishers WeeklySteel's usual verve is all but absent from her 52nd novel, a hasty Cinderella story that begins when heroine Marie-Ange Hawkins goes from an idyllic French ch...
Amazon.com ReviewStuart Woods is a master of the glitzy, high-concept, suspense thriller, and Stone Barrington, hero of five previous mysteries, is the kind of private cop who glid...
From Publishers WeeklyFans of Curious Cook Harold McGee will relish the latest from This (_Molecular Gastronomy_), a French chemist and foodie hero who has helped to usher in the c...
SUMMARY: THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH AND THE CITY FELL. The land of Falanor has been invaded by an albino army, the Army of Iron. A small band of heroes led by Kell, a magnificent and...
Amazon.com ReviewJunie B. Jones and all of Room 9 are getting ready to graduate from kindergarten! Their teacher--known to our heroine as "Mrs."--distributes their fresh white caps...
JULIAN ASSANGE: THE FIRST TRUE HERO OF THE INTERNET AGE This unauthorized full-length biography is pro-Assange overall. It is a sympathetic portrait of a flawed-hero figure fearles...
From Publishers WeeklyIn the 1962 rock ballad, Johnny Angel isn't an angel, but an angelic young dreamboat. In Steel's book, the titular hero is both-as well as class valedictorian...