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The romantic manifesto_ a philo - Ayn Rand
Review''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand's voice, delivering the novelist's passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne's clear conveyance of Rand's essays is imp... -
The gathering - Anne Enright
SUMMARY: A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and movin... -
The Way of Kings - Brandon Sanderson
SUMMARY: According to mythology mankind used to live in The Tranquiline Halls. Heaven. But then the Voidbringers assaulted and captured heaven, casting out God and men. Men took ro... -
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
SUMMARY: This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that... -
The Voice of Reason_ Essays in - Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Pete
SUMMARY: Here is the final collection of articles and speeches by the bestselling and world-renowned novelist, essayist, and philosopher. -
The Voice - William L.K_
SUMMARY:SPECIAL EDITION: Includes two bonus short storiesA man finds himself floating offshore looking back at a destroyed city. He has no memory of w... -
The Straw Men - Michael Marshall
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Michael Marshall's unique voice adds a chilling intensity to the serial-killer plot, combining dazzling narrative, a white-hot pace and a deeply disturbing backdr... -
The Rise and Fall of a Dragonki - Lynn Abbey
SUMMARY: The much-feared sorcerer-king of Urik, Hamanu joins a plot to force a transmutation that will allow him to avoid his own corruption but that will destroy all of Urik in th... -
The Reservoir - John Milliken Thompson
On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but t... -
The Man Who Ate Everything - Jeffrey Steingarten
Amazon.com ReviewWhen Jeffrey Steingarten was made food critic of Vogue in 1989, he began by systematically learning to like all the food he had previously avoided. From clams to ....