God's Gold explores the fate of the greatest biblical treasure in history, the central icons of the Jewish faith looted from the Temple of Jerusalem. The golden candelabrum, silver...
SUMMARY: From Conn Iggulden, #1 bestselling author of six historical epics and coauthor of the international sensation The Dangerous Book for Boys, comes a magnificent new work of ...
SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it's nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers fo...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Mia Montrose is a 21st century woman with a doctorate in ancient languages, Ashlee Granville is a 19th century clairvoyant, entering into marriage. Lillet de Lac ...
Amazon.com ReviewLois Lowry's magnificent novel of the distant future, The Giver, is set in a highly technical and emotionally repressed society. This eagerly awaited companion vo....
Now it can be told: The origin of the S.C.E.!In the twenty-fourth century, the U.S.S. da Vinci and its S.C.E. team led by Commander Sonya Gomez roam the galaxy, solving the tec...
Amazon.com ReviewFor Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, ....
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu....
SUMMARY: Mark Doty's Fire to Fire collects the best of Mark Doty's seven books of poetry, along with a generous selection of new work. Doty's subjects—our mortal situation, the eva...