From Publishers WeeklyFive separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estep’s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003’s Hex), ...
From Publishers WeeklyAfter A Far Better Rest (2000), an homage to Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Alleyn returns to postrevolutionary Paris in her second novel, a taut p...
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"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago TribuneTwo-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in ...
Product Descriptionhe British invented the novel, with the publication of Robinson Crusoe in 1719 marking the arrival of a revolutionary and distinctly modern form of art....
Amazon.com ReviewFollowing up his cosmic Evolution. The book is nothing less than a novelization of human evolution, a mega-Michener treatment of 65 million years starring a host ....