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The Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
Amazon.com ReviewBernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable Burglar on the Prowl, Bernie is recruited by an old friend to bur.... -
The Burglar in the Rye - Lawrence Block
Amazon.com ReviewLawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of Burg... -
The Burglar Who Painted Like Mo - Lawrence Block
Amazon.com ReviewIf the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the noir classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he's .... -
The Book_ On the Taboo Against - Alan Watts
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest... -
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Amazon.com ReviewAfter Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."He wasn't aging; he was growi... -
The Bobby Gold stories - Anthony Bourdain
Amazon.com ReviewAuthor Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (, ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Chann... -
The Big Thaw - Donald Harstad
Amazon.com ReviewDon't let the title of this dry suspense novel fool you. It's very cold in January in Iowa, the setting for Donald Harstad's third outing in his series featuring D... -
The Best Military Science Ficti - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewIt's not merely a task that's thankless--it's impossible. How can you hope to pick out the best of anything, let alone from such a contentious category as SF (and ... -
The Best Alternate History Stor - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they .... -
The Battle for Christmas - Stephen Nissenbaum
Amazon.com ReviewThis scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century...