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The Watery Part of the World - Michael Parker
From Publishers WeeklyParker's affecting fifth novel mines two historical anecdotes from 1813 and 1970 to draw parallel narratives around island dwellers off the North Carolina coa... -
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
SUMMARY: This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that... -
The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
From Publishers WeeklyNovelist Steven Pressfield (The Legend of Bagger Vance; Gates of Fire) goes self-help in The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle. Dubbing itself a c... -
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Publ... -
The Voice of Reason_ Essays in - Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Pete
SUMMARY: Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher. -
The Vision - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY:With more than 200 million copies of his novels sold, Dean Koontz is an undisputed master. And in The Vision, he once again displays the talent that led the Chicago ... -
The Untouchable - John Banville
Amazon.com ReviewA brilliant, engaging, and highly literate espionage-cum-existential novel, John Banville's The Untouchable concerns the suddenly-exposed double agent Victor Mask.... -
The Unincorporated Man - Dani Kollin; Eytan Kollin
SUMMARY: "The Unincorporated Man" is a provocative social/political/economic novel that takes place in the future, after civilization has fallen into complete economic collapse. Th... -
The Unicorn Hunt - Dorothy Dunnett
With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The ... -
The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Along a mist-shrouded country road in South Wales on a chilly November evening, engineer Michael Starkwedder's car stands hopel...