From Publishers WeeklyHistory teaches us, contrary to popular belief, that money can buy happiness, drugs are mostly good, low-fat diets may not prevent cancer or heart disease. Fo...
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, diseas...
Maybe your dad took you to ball games at Fenway, Wrigley, or Ebbets. Maybe the two of you watched broadcasts from Yankee Stadium or Candlestick Park, or listened as Red Barber or V...
From Publishers WeeklyIn the solid latest from veteran novelist Doig (_The Whistling Season_), 11 starters of a close-knit Montana college championship football team enlist as the ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced. Discovering that dumplin...
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the...
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t...