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The Airplane - Jay Spenser
From Publishers WeeklyThis history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright broth.... -
The Age of Empathy_ Nature's Le - Frans de Waal
From Publishers WeeklyDe Waal (Chimpanzee Politics), a renowned primatologist, culls an astounding volume of research that deflates the human assumption that animals lack the char.... -
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular.... -
The Aeneid - Virgil; Bernard Knox; Robert Fa
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Princeton scholar Fagles follows up his celebrated Iliad and Odyssey with a new, fast-moving, readable rendition of the nat... -
The Accident Man - Tom Cain
From Publishers Weekly The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely cap... -
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
From Publishers WeeklySignatureReviewed by Jennifer GilmoreTom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher he carves out an even larger chunk of his distin... -
The Abduction - James Grippando
From Publishers WeeklyThe presidential election of 2000 is coming down to the wire in this disappointing thriller, when Democratic candidate (and attorney general) Allison Leahy bl... -
The 7th Victim - Alan Jacobson
From Publishers WeeklyIn Jacobson's tepid third thriller (after Hunted and False Accusations), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead ... -
Talking It Over - Julian Barnes
From Publishers WeeklyThe members of a love triangle take turns narrating this ingenious novel from British author Barnes, whose earlier works Metroland and Before She Left Me will... -
Talking God - Tony Hillerman
From Publishers WeeklyHillerman's latest is not quite up to his best standards, but it's still a wonderfully readable, involving mystery. Here he sets Navajo Tribal Police Lieutena...