On the eve of the monsoons, in a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to a baby girl. But in a culture that favors sons, the only way for Kavita to save her newborn daughter's...
SUMMARY: One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever...Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is sett...
SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [...
An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remark...
Amazon.com ReviewThis Tom Clancy real-life military thriller is more nuanced than his novels, because its object is not simply to dramatize armed conflict but to relate the life le...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this sequel to her* New York Times* bestsellers* Under the Tuscan Sun* and* Bella Tuscany*, the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" (*New York Times*) lyrically chron...
SUMMARY:The Tardis travels through a wormhole in space and time that leaves it nearly dead in a Swedish forest in the present day The Doctor reasons one end of the wormhole ...
They have sex too early and for the wrong reasons. They get STDs. They get pregnant too young. They have "friends with benefits" but with no benefit to themselves. They don't get c...
SUMMARY:Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfyi...