-
The Informers - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
SUMMARY: A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today. When Gabriel Santoros biography is scath... -
The Descent - Jeff Long
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Long's smart and epic tale takes the reader into a Dantesque world, a journey to the center of the earth for the new millennium. And what is found there is both ... -
The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett; James Ellroy
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious ... -
The Commodore - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His... -
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
From Publishers WeeklyWhen Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and v... -
The Black Lung Captain - Chris Wooding
<h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; ">Darian Frey is down on his luck. He can barely keep his squabbling crew fed and his rickety aircra... -
The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky
Amazon.com ReviewThe buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbao aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ("A Basque or Navarrese would do in a Frenc.... -
The Algebraist - Iain M. Banks
SUMMARY:It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the... -
Starstrike_ Task Force Mars - Douglas; Dockery Niles
An elite squadron of space commandos battles against the deadliest dangers the galaxy has to offer, in this second novel of an action-packed, military science fiction series. Or... -
Star Wars_ X-Wing 06_ Iron Fist - Aaron Allston
Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission. But now they are called upon to cheat death twice. This time Wedge Antilles sends...