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...
SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother's mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartr...
Amazon.com ReviewThe central character in Sebastian Barry's novel Annie Dunne is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness a....
SUMMARY: With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of i...
ReviewPraise for Abiding Darkness(Book 2 of 'The Black or White Chronicles')Great detail, intense scenes, and wonderful characters make Abiding Darkness a genuine p...
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORIn her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness.Dr. Jamison is one of the f...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: World War I nurse Bess Crawford, introduced in *A Duty to the Dead*, returns in an exciting new mystery in which a murder draws her inexorably into the sights of ...
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness_ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perce...
From Library JournalSuddenly finding himself the guardian of five energetic children, Anthony Elliot, the Earl of Greyley, knows that he needs a governess and fast. But not just an...