FromThis intriguing first novel takes another look at the world of espionage in Afghanistan. A travel writer with firsthand knowledge of the area, Elliot effectively combines actio...
SUMMARY: Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other you...
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from...
SUMMARY: Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to he...
Since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death, other mystery writers have produced innumerable new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Veteran editor Mike Ashley has compiled the biggest col...
The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrori...
From School Library JournalGrade 5–7—In this sequel to Changeling (Viking, 2006), Neef is sent to Miss Van Loon's School for Mortal Changelings. She had known there were other mor....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the acclaimed author of the 2007 *New York Times* Notable Book *Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name* comes a stunning novel about the love between husban...
A nameless couple meet, fall in love, move in together, and then the hard work of loving each other begins. Told as a series of dictionary entries, The Lover’s Dictionary is an int...
From Publishers WeeklyIf Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventur...