SUMMARY: 在线阅读本书 A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the Nightingale Floor...
"Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly confident. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot...
SUMMARY:In a new Detective Inspector Horton mystery, Inspector Andy Horton's holiday peace is shattered when, stepping out across an abandoned golf course on the Isle of Wig...
Product DescriptionTalbot Uskevren, the second son of one of Selgaunt's most powerful families, fights a deadly battle within himself. Like most men of his station, Talbot spends h...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Set in the mid '60s, Roy's outstanding debut melds strong characters and an engrossing plot with an evocative sense of place. When Negro boys ...
SUMMARY: In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories ...
In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and ...
SUMMARY: One of the great series in the history of the American detective story gets even better when Spenser is hired by a jilted bride to follow a cheating husband, only to cross...
Amazon.com ReviewParticle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes __ in....
"Graceful and exciting ... the best kind of 'escape' story."-LIBRARY JOURNALWhat seems a marriage of convenience...When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill he...