SUMMARY: Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease--and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making th...
ReviewA fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve...its moderateness, lack of exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the G...
In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski w...
SUMMARY: Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it. But despite the appearance of the bestselling The World According T...
Written especially for Americans, this book demonstrates how varied, exciting, and inexpensive Indian cooking can be, and how easily you can produce authentic dishes at home. Over ...
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news...
From Publishers WeeklyNobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he's working close enough t...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: COWBOY SHERIFF IN COMMAND Despite his previously unblemished reputation, for years, cowboy sheriff Cash McCall had been the prime suspect in his fiancée's disappe...
From Publishers WeeklySoon after Pearl Harbor, Darnton's father, Barney Darnton, a correspondent for the New York Times, shipped off to the South Pacific, leaving behind infant Dar...
SUMMARY: The ninth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. Emma is 30, single and, frankly, desperate. She woke up this morning with nothing to look forward to but...