From Publishers WeeklyThis spirited, dramatic history of the most important invention of the second millennium celebrates railroads as the central innovation of the industrial revo...
SUMMARY:In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton's holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wig...
SUMMARY: Todd Strasser is the author of such popular and diverse titles as the middle-grade series, "Help, I'm Trapped...," "The Wave," and the contemporary YAs, "Give a Boy a Gun"...
SUMMARY: Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez, but he has only days before the magical box is lost to him fore...
SUMMARY: In a fantasy world as rich and real as our own, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell stand against the ancient forces which besiege the New World - forces so terrible that when ...
SUMMARY: An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the myt...
SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you've never heard of...She uses the relati...
From Publishers WeeklyAlthough delivering little in the way of new information, Sides, an Outside magazine editor-at-large and bestselling author (Ghost Soldiers), eloque...
From Publishers WeeklyBurleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this p...