From Publishers WeeklyThe ghost hovering over this assured and astonishingly mature first novel is that of Joseph Roth, the great interwar Austrian novelist. Perhaps this reflects ...
Product DescriptionThe shallow sea that foams and murmurs on the shores of the thousand islands, big and little, which make up the Malay Archipelago has been for centuries the scen...
Product DescriptionDetective Isaac Bell returns, in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. It is 1910, the age of...
A super-funny, super-crazy crime caper with five rare-breed sheep.A silver object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with ...
In "The Quest for Meaning", Tariq Ramadan, philosopher and Islamic scholar, invites the reader to join him on a journey to the deep ocean of religious, secular, and indigenous spir...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Erdrich's 13th novel, a multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance, finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a f...
SUMMARY: When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is the verdict. Then his step-daughter Tossa receives a note suggesting Ter...
SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: One Man's Obsession. . . Pharmacy clerk William Dremmel is hooked--on drugging pretty young women and lulling them into slow, blissfully quiet deaths. Then he pac...
An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary...