From Publishers WeeklyThough this memoir of growing up in America and Peru centers on Arana's parents' turbulent marriage, her real focus is the way cultures define, limit and enri...
SUMMARY: Missy Charms just got the shock of her life. The man she thought was dead has turned up on her doorstep.Her ex-husband-Jonas Abel.Four years ago, Missy Charms fell hard fo...
Amazon.com ReviewAlthough Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel __) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he receiv...
From Publishers WeeklyLeonard Lessing, the British protagonist of Crace's surprisingly bad 10th novel (after The Pesthouse), has Walter Mitty–like dreams of being a revolutionary ....
She was their closest friend, or so they thought — until years later, when her secrets send them on a perilous search for the truth about who she really was ... and why she died .....
Sector General: A vast hospital complex in the depths of outer space. The thousands who work there, human and alien both, have a single mission: To care for all patients, of all sp...
SUMMARY: Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would h...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Littlefield (A Bad Day for Pretty) turns what could be just another zombie apocalypse into a thoughtful and entertaining exploration of many t...
“I know that many of you here have waited years for this Hour,” Mater Motley said, using that voice that, though it was barely conversational in volume, was somehow heard everywher...
SUMMARY: A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relati...