SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sa...
SUMMARY: In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a you...
Amazon.com ReviewMario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics....
“Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.” —Douglas Brinkley ...
Product DescriptionAfter several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is sent to investigate. Their ques...
SUMMARY: Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him h...
Amazon.com ReviewThis surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolu...
Pressure cookers will boost flavor and cut cooking time a whopping 70 percent-but only if you know how to use them. In this cookbook, author Pamela Rice Hahn teaches you about the ...
Product DescriptionTranslated with an Introduction by Andrew George. About the AuthorAndrew George is Reader in Assyriology at SOAS (the School of Oriential and Africa...
From Publishers WeeklyA Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she disco...