From Publishers WeeklyIn his first novel since PEN/Faulkner finalist Elroy Nights, Barthelme offers a strangely detached exploration of the post-Katrina Mississippi Gulf Coast. On....
Product DescriptionThis title is the third in a series of recovers of the popular Avatar series. At the time of its original release, this series presented key events that impacted...
SUMMARY: Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every ...
SUMMARY: Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there u...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "April is the cruelist month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." This is the first line of T. ...
From Publishers WeeklyU.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military...
From Publishers WeeklyThe "lies" in this haunting, powerful Holocaust novel are not just the Nazis' monstrous racialist myths, but also the personal fictions adopted by their victi...
SUMMARY: a priceless artifact could restore a family's honor — or destroy everything in its wake.While vacationing in Tokyo, archaeologist Annja Creed is approached by a man who de...
From Publishers WeeklyThe concept of additional spatial dimensions is as far from intuitive as any idea can be. Indeed, although Harvard physicist Randall does a very nice job of e...
SUMMARY: Dr. Neal Anson Clemons, brilliant physicist and martial arts expert, was born at the very moment that men first landed on the moon, and his dream had always been to find a...