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Another part of the wood - Beryl Bainbridge
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and other... -
American Empire_ The Victorious - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe latest volume in Turtledove's colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the... -
After the prophet_ the epic sto - Lesley Hazleton
SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as M... -
Across the Sea of Suns - Gregory Benford
Messages from a far distant sun are received on Earth, causing chaos, as they are in English! A ship is sent twelve years to find the answers and find a secret so deadly it threate... -
A Thousand Suns - Alex Scarrow
SUMMARY: It's early April 1945, deep in the bloodied days of World War II. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages usel... -
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
EDITORIAL REVIEW: After 103 weeks on the *New York Times* bestseller list and with four million copies of *The Kite Runner* shipped, Khaled Hosse... -
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin ... -
A More Perfect Heaven - Dava Sobel
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to p... -
A Fury Scorned - Pamela Sargent; George Zebrowsk
Product DescriptionWith their sun about to go nova, the people of Epictetus III face annihilation. Although the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM has come to lead the rescue operation, the... -
A Caribbean Mystery - Agatha Christie
As Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Then ...