Product DescriptionLos Alamos, 1944. A World War is being fought. In the American desert, the race is on to build an atomic bomb. The fate of the world is at stake, in more ways th...
The Barnes & Noble Review Society Comes Tumbling Down Bruce Sterling's latest, longest, most rigorously imagined portrait of 21st-century American life, Distraction, is now availab...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.** Critics calle...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his optio...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3...
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic w...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Sovi...
A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-Ameri...
Product DescriptionAmerican author and preacher ERNEST SHURTLEFF HOLMES (1887-1960) began studying Christian Science at age twenty-one and in 1912 built a church to spread the mess...
A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican.Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the ex...