EDITORIAL REVIEW: After her brilliant detective debut in *Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor*, there can be no doubt that Jane Austen would have made aremarkable sleuth...
SUMMARY: Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt's house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr. Rochester. She loves him and wants t...
From Publishers WeeklyIstanbul straddles the divide of Europe and Asia, and its polyglot population of 12 million seethes with political, religious and sexual tensions, as shown in...
Colonel Joey R. Czerinski and his band of legionnaires try to quell a citizen uprising in planet New Colorado’s New Gobi Desert and foil an insurgency plot to kill the spider Arthr...
Amazon.com ReviewLust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's In...
(1990-First Edition) SUMMARY: Orson Scott Card shares his advice on how to break into this field, how to develop fantastic story ideas, and evolve fresh plots.
This cloth-bound special edition of Danielle Steel’s Hotel Vendôme is enhanced with gold leaf, comes with a special slip case, and is signed by the author. Danielle Steel’s dazzlin...
Fourth-grader Ellie James has a great imagination. She spends a lot of time daydreaming of owning a black stallion show horse and winning trophies in the horse show. But when the a...
From Publishers WeeklyOzick's previous novel, The Puttermesser Papers, revolved around one quirky hero; this time around, Ozick incubates several. Characters, not plot, drive this....
SUMMARY: "Convincing, subtle and logically plotted, Inspector Sejer is a great addition to the detectives' league." --"The Dallas Morning News" Inspector Sejer is hard at work agai...