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As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
Amazon.com ReviewParticle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes __ in.... -
Architecture - Andrew Ballantyne
Review`a densely fascinating guide' Steven Poole, The Guardian Review`an excellent introduction to architecture ... one to recommend to students, friends and family, which is ... -
Apathy for the Devil - Nick Kent
From Publishers WeeklyThe subtitle of Kent's first memoir, and first book since 2002's The Dark Stuff collected his writings on rock music, says it all: this is a staggering and vi... -
Apartment in Athens - Glenway Wescott; David Leavitt
ReviewA fine study in humiliation and nobility, and their culmination in tragedy and desperate resolve...its moderateness, lack of exaggeration, and serenity are admirable as the G... -
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
Amazon.com ReviewLogan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991, aged 85. William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart is his disjointe.... -
Amigoland - Oscar Casares
SUMMARY: In a small town on the Mexican border live two brothers, Don Fidencio and Don Celestino. Stubborn and independent, they now must face the facts: they are old, and they hav... -
American Colossus_ The Triumph - H. W. Brands
From Publishers WeeklyIn this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J... -
All the Pretty Dead Girls - John Manning
EDITORIAL REVIEW: One By One...Two decades ago, at a private women's college in upstate New York, a student was brutally attacked in her dorm room. Her assailant was never found...... -
All I've Ever Wanted - Adrianne Byrd
Product DescriptionWhen single mom Kennedy St. James stumbles across the brutal murder of an assistant district attorney, she narrowly escapes with her life. Certain that Atlanta's... -
Akeelah and the Bee - James W. Ellison; Doug Atchison
From School Library JournalGrade 4-6–Akeelah Anderson, 11, is accustomed to hiding her intelligence from the other students at Crenshaw Middle School. All this changes when she is ...