SUMMARY: Hot new catalogue company, Velvet, Leather and Lace, is launching a revolution in lingerie--and partners Jamie, Samantha, and Mia are coming apart as fast as their wispy n...
SUMMARY: Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, "V." remains a popular literary classic by one of America's great modernists. "This work may w...
“Outstanding... social history at its best.” –The New York Times Book Review“An amazing, long-forgotten tale. A riveting history written with flair and precision.”—Bob WoodwardIn o...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. British author Peace (_GB84_, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction) bases this riveting novel on a real-life serial...
Sometimes a city can be like a bird. Just as the magpie is an inveterate collector, hoarding beautiful eclectic bits to line its nest, so Prague retains fragments from bygone regim...
When a little boy chooses to play with the Velveteen Rabbit instead of his more expensive toys, the doll learns what it means to be truly Real. Young and old alike will enjoy this ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn Gortner's latest riveting historical (after The Last Queen), the influential Dudley family sends orphan servant Brendan Prescott to serve their cruel son, ...
SUMMARY:The Tears of Autumn, McCarry's riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, was a major bestseller upon its first publication. Spun with unsettling plausibility ...
SUMMARY: Beautifully written and elegantly paced,The Story of Edgar Sawtelleis a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting t...
From Publishers WeeklyHealing, be it psychological, physiological or spiritual, informs this humane but too-familiar novel from veteran writer Chamberlain (The Courage Tree, etc.)....