SUMMARY: A radical Islamic leader who dreams of the past will do anything in his power to ensure that the future is destroyed--by hitting the technological world where it hurts: oi...
SUMMARY: Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself." -The Denver Post on World Without End Ken Foll...
Each story in this crystalline, spare, oddly moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by delusions and misapprehensions that quickly bring them to impass...
English Passengers (2000) A novel by Matthew Kneale Awards: Whitbread Prize The Booker Prize (nominee) This novel tells two parallel stories: one of three eccentric Englishmen who ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mistake that caused him to flee his hometown eight years ago. Revis...
Product DescriptionThe bards of Waterdeep remember the past. Or do they? Even as they sing their ballads, a mysterious spell is changing their memories. Danilo Thann, Harper and wo...
Amazon.com ReviewSurpassing its popular prequel Eragon, this second volume in the Inheritance trilogy shows growing maturity and skill on the part of its very young author, w...
The conspiracy is real. Last decade, scientists made an astonishing discovery. Their telescopes looked out further than ever before and found another galaxy churning into the Milky...
From Publishers WeeklyFormer Random House editor Epstein (_Book Business: Publishing Past, Present and Future_) combines his literary lunches with a personal, tried-and-true collec...
SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name g...