EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the Whitbread Award-winning **The Last King of Scotland** comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman ...
SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaw...
Amazon.com ReviewIt had to happen. The spunkiest sass mouth in room 9 finally B. I think I have mentioned that to you before... B., B., B., B., B.")The 18th installment in ...
Amazon.com ReviewProbably no American outlaw has attracted more attention--much of it flattering--than Jesse James. This revisionist biography by T.J. Stiles delves into the exciti...
From Publishers WeeklyFollowing conviction for bank fraud, White spent a year in a minimum-security prison in Carville, La., housed in the last leper colony in mainland America. Hi...
SUMMARY:On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from...
From Publishers WeeklySorokin's epic trilogy, originally published between 2002 and 2005, expands the enigma of the 1908 Tunguska meteorite blast into an impressive merger of metap...