SUMMARY: Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. Sunlight streams a...
SUMMARY: 在线阅读本书 A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor...
"Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly confident. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot...
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: In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories ...
In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and ...
SUMMARY: One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross...
Amazon.com ReviewParticle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes __ in....
Product DescriptionWhen single mom Kennedy St. James stumbles across the brutal murder of an assistant district attorney, she narrowly escapes with her life. Certain that Atlanta's...