One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presi...
From Publishers WeeklyThis immensely accomplished novel by the author of the Edgar Award-winning short story collection Poachers is based on a real-life feud in the 1890s that pitt...
From Publishers WeeklySome know her as the star of the 1960s TV show That Girl, or creator of Free to Be... You and Me, or perhaps major fund-raiser for St. Jude Children's Researc...
SUMMARY: They were born on the same day, in the same hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth is an artist and a romantic, with a rich and passionate im...
SUMMARY: Two hundred years after the Forbidding was broken, Santhenar is locked in war with the lyrinx - intelligent, winged predators who will do anything to gain their own world....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In *Gateways*, Jack heads south to Florida when he learns his estranged father is in a coma after a car accident. In the hospital Jack meets weird old Anya, one ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn his foreword, David Stuart Davies asserts that the authors of these 11 stories pitting Holmes against the supernatural are very well-versed in the world of...
SUMMARY: AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS...A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITT® rescues a...
Amazon.com ReviewIn the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of and , two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain h...
From Publishers WeeklyOriginally published in 1951, but just now making its first American appearance, this mystery launched Peters's Inspector Felse series. Set in Britain just af...