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Bamboo and Blood - James Church
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature I... -
Awakening the Buddha Within _ E - Lama Surya Das
Amazon.com ReviewIf you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya ... -
Ashworth Hall - Anne Perry
When a group of powerful Irish Protestants and Catholics gather at a country house to discuss Irish home rule, contention is to be expected. But when the meeting's moderator, gover... -
Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic. Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twe... -
Apartment in Athens - Glenway Wescott; David Leavitt
ReviewA fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve...its moderateness, lack of exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the G... -
Another part of the wood - Beryl Bainbridge
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and other... -
An Area of Darkness - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness_ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perce... -
American Lion - Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidenc... -
Alligator - Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland—a... -
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Review"* 'Brian Murdoch's new English translation...shows that Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force' - The Times * 'There are some books...