SUMMARY: For Rahotep, chief detective, life is about to get very complicated. On the shadowy city streets the cryptically mutilated bodies of several young people are discovered. T...
Review“A true historical imagination is exceedingly rare, and [_Tun-huang_] is a superb example of such an imagination at work.” —Robert Payne, ASIA “The unique thing ...
SUMMARY: For Ty Buchanan, defending a suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine...
Al Franken is “the perfect guy to write a book attacking America’s nasty, mean, vicious right-wing pols, pundits and preachers,” wrote The Washington Post in its review of Lies. “B...
Amazon.com Review"What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disrae....
SUMMARY: KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels "Triangle, The Little Women, The Music" "Lesson, "and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than" "They Appear." She lives in Connectic...
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implicat...
Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his father's disappearance,...
Product Description/Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Joram and his wife, Gwendolyn, return from beyond the Border to reclaim their rightful place in Merilon. Rejoined by Saryon, Mos...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now DIRK PITT di...