SUMMARY: Just why do humpback whales sing?That's the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray mari...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Independent biographer Smith (1996's John Marshall: Definer of a Nation and 2001's Grant) crafts a magisterial biography of...
SUMMARY: A scorching new novel from the national bestselling author of Release. Dr. Sophie Gable didn't expect her peaceful getaway to be shattered by the arrival of the half-dazed...
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body...
From Publishers WeeklyJournalist Talty (_Mulatto America_) entertainingly chronicles the life of legendary privateer Capt. Henry Morgan and his crucial role in challenging Spain's ...
From School Library JournalGrade 4–6—Emily Windsnap, half-human/half-mermaid, is faced with her biggest challenge yet when she learns that the mermaid village of Shiprock is about ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Is He Her Mortal Enemy-** Lady Shay is the last of her kind. Half human, half Shalott, her blood is a precious aphrodisiac to vampires, who consider it more pre...
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...
SUMMARY: Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - a...