"To call <b>Going After Cacciato</b> a novel about war is like calling <b>Moby-Dick</b> a novel about whales."<br><br>So wrote the <i>New York Times</i> of Tim O'Brien's now classi...
Amazon.com ReviewOne could argue that the war novel is an essentially timeless genre. Weapons are subject to long and increasingly lethal refinement--but from Gods Go Begging, is ....
In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could...
SUMMARY: During the Christmas Truce of 1914, Hal Montgomery, a British soldier, is given a photo by a German soldier, Wilhelm Wetzlar, and they make a pact. Hal promises to find hi...
From Publishers WeeklyFifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin--now in their 50s--for a disappointing and uninspired outin...
SUMMARY: Meet Rossamünda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple jour...
From Publishers WeeklyAdler follows up Peach and The Rich Shall Inherit with another glitzy roller-coaster saga. Using standard rags-to-riches ingredients, she gives us a trio of C...
From Library JournalOutlawed by the mage-priests of Thimhallen since the Iron Wars, the Ninth Mystery, called Technology, has survived only among society's outcasts until a young m...
SUMMARY: Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nigh...
SUMMARY: This is Ayn Rand's challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the "atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evas...