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The Last Days - Wye8th
St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himse... -
The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen.... -
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets - Stieg Larsson
SUMMARY: In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 24 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed whi... -
The Fat Years - Koonchung Chan
Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in ... -
The Empire of Glass - Andy Lane
SUMMARY:After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by som... -
The Clothes Have No Emperor_ A - Paul Slansky
SUMMARY: A political humorist's caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrage... -
The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings.... -
Siege of Heaven - Tom Harper
SUMMARY: Starred Review. British author Harper brings to life the political and religious passions of the 11th-century in his excellent conclusion to his First Crusade trilogy (aft... -
Seeker's Curse - Alex Archer
SUMMARY: Enlisted by the Japan Buddhist Federation to catalog a number of ancient shrines dotted across Nepal, archaeologist Annja Creed is honored to help. Political violence has ... -
Running Dry - Jonathan Waterman
From BooklistStarred Review Waterman, whose earlier books illuminate the Arctic, strikes an impressive balance between the personal and the political in chronicling his journey do....