From Publishers WeeklyIn his first novel since PEN/Faulkner finalist Elroy Nights, Barthelme offers a strangely detached exploration of the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. On....
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Wa...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Different Victims - The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist.Different Methods - The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbe...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "April is the cruelist month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." This is the first line of T. ...
From Publishers WeeklyThe "lies" in this haunting, powerful Holocaust novel are not just the Nazis' monstrous racialist myths, but also the personal fictions adopted by their victi...
SUMMARY: a priceless artifact could restore a family's honor — or destroy everything in its wake.While vacationing in Tokyo, archaeologist Annja Creed is approached by a man who de...
From Publishers WeeklyThe concept of additional spatial dimensions is as far from intuitive as any idea can be. Indeed, although Harvard physicist Randall does a very nice job of e...
SUMMARY: Dr. Neal Anson Clemons, brilliant physicist and martial arts expert, was born at the very moment that men first landed on the moon, and his dream had always been to find a...
SUMMARY: Marika, now a psychic adept in the Maksche Cloister of Silth, faces new challenges as she befriends the tradermale Bagnel, uncovers a renegade Silth sect, and confronts th...
SUMMARY: John Yoo, the key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11, delivers a fascinating insider account of the War on Terror. While America reeled from the...