Amazon.com ReviewThere is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in da...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Shan's dystopic thriller, the first in a trilogy already published in the U.K., is an excellent, twisting foray into a world of deceit, murder...
From Publishers WeeklyIn the second installment of British author Ash’s Tears of Artamon trilogy, a skillful mix of horror and romantic fantasy, vampiric dragons soar against a won...
Amazon.com ReviewWorld War II may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 "an...
SUMMARY: When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he's gotten her into. It turns out that her former asso...
Amazon.com ReviewThe Humanx Commonwealth is Alan Dean Foster's signature fictional universe, the setting of, among others, his Adventures of Flinx series (which begins with __) and...
SUMMARY: The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of th...
SUMMARY: What bones are buried in the shadows of the past? Asked to join in a dig at the site of the eighteenth–century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student ...
From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No...
Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the tr...