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Cascadia's Fault - Jerry Thompson; Simon Wincheste
ReviewPraise for Cascadia's Fault "Reporter Jerry Thompson puts the history of subduction earthquakes and the resultant tsunamis into clear perspective. In Cascadia’s F... -
Cadillac Desert_ The American W - Marc Reisner
Amazon.com ReviewThe definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recom... -
Bringing Out the Dead - Joe Connelly
Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as... -
Black and White - Jackie Kessler; Caitlin Kittred
SUMMARY: It's the ultimate battle of good versus good. They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joann... -
Big Jack - Nora Roberts; J. D. Robb
SUMMARY: In New York City in 2059, someone is pursuing missing gems from a decades-old heist...someone who's willing to kill for them. Sharp-witted and sexy, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve D... -
Begin Again_ A Biography of Joh - Kenneth Silverman
From John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, qui... -
Barcelona - Damien Simonis
Lonely Planet BarcelonaLeave your preconceptions about architecture behind at the curving, coral-like facade of Gaudí’s whimsical Casa BatllóSend your tastebuds to sea... -
At Some Disputed Barricade_ A N - Anne Perry
From Publishers WeeklyFans of the first three books in this WWI series from Perry, best known for her Victorian police procedurals, will eagerly pick up this fourth volume to learn... -
Arcadia Falls - Carol Goodman
SUMMARY: There once was a girl who liked to pretend she was lost. . . . Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves ... -
Another part of the wood - Beryl Bainbridge
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and other...