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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before h... -
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
Something is amiss at Unseen Unversity, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing—but a search party is on the way! A bevy... -
The Informant - Thomas Perry
Amazon.com ReviewIn Thomas Perry’s Edgar-winning debut The Butcher’s Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafia leaves countless mobsters dead and then disappears. Justice D.... -
The Ghost Hunters - Deborah Blum
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit worldWhat if a world -renowned philosopher and professo... -
The Finkler Questione - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY:'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspec... -
The Cold War - John Lewis Gaddis
From Publishers WeeklyGregory and Sklar, reading Yale history professor Gaddis's study of the American-Soviet standoff, give voice to their inner television announcer, their twin b... -
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote - Lawrence Block
From Publishers Weekly Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warn... -
The Beauty Myth_ How Images of - Naomi Wolf
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity.In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional ... -
The 30 Greatest Sports Conspira - Elliott Kalb
In The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time, long-time TV sports statistician and self-professed skeptic Elliott Kalb examines the most notable conspiracies in sports... -
Star Wars_ Tales of the Bounty - Kevin J. Anderson
In a wild and battle-scarred galaxy, assassins, pirates, smugglers, and cutthroats of every description roam at will, fearing only the professional bounty hunters-amoral adventurer...