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Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
This fictionalized life of the notorious queen is told from the point of view of her younger sister, Mutnodjmet. In 1351 B.C., Prince Amunhotep secretly kills his older brother and... -
Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn
Product DescriptionHonoria Smythe-Smith is: A) a really bad violinist B) still miffed at being nicknamed "Bug" as a childC) not in love with her older brother's best fr... -
Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner
Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself... -
Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proveshe is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the futu... -
Early Irish Myths and Sagas - Jeffrey Gantz
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world -- part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, ... -
Bullet - Laurell K. Hamilton
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***The music came back up and the next group of little girls, slightly older, came out. There was a lot of that in the next hour and change. I liked dance, and it... -
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail IUr'evich Lermontov; Na
Review"Natasha Randall's English, in her new translation, has exactly the right degree of loose velocity. . . . (Nabokov's version, the best-known older translation, is a bit more ...