SUMMARY: Enchanting fantasy by creator of beloved "Oz" stories whisks young readers away on an exciting underwater adventure! They'll meet a school of beguiling mermaids and an ari...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Killing Is An Art** In life, they were flawed. In death, they are perfect works of art--killed, preserved, and carefully molded into replicas of Michelangelo's ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The ancient dragons -- of the time of the legendary Saint George and earlier -- have never disappeared entirely. Instead, they've moved undercover -- and into hum...
Synopsis:It is one of the great questions of American historywhy did the Southern states bolt from the Union and help precipitate the Civil War? Now, acclaimed historian Wi...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Late on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the *Capital Tribune* newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly ti...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A *New York Times *Bestseller** A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary edition o...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.* *The Princes of Ireland*, the first volume ...
Review"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde...