SUMMARY: The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education ' the ...
From School Library JournalGrade 6-9 Bradford raises the stakes for his blond samurai student in this second installment in the series. Previously shipwrecked after his father was ...
Key Selling Points- Four-time Hugo and two-time Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold has a huge audience, and a string of novels that sell and sell and sell. . . .- This Miles Vor...
Review'A fine tale of romance and conflict' -- Nottinham Evening Post 20070127 'Scarrow plunges into the aftermath of the French Revolution for another rip-roaring adventure story'...
Kristin Burns has lived her life by the philosophy "Don't think, just shoot"--pictures, that is. Struggling to make ends meet, she works full-time as the nanny for the fabulously w...
Following Like You'd Understand, Anyway--awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award--Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of asto...
Review"Headlong, heartsick and footsore....Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace....Nobody writes better than...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is lo...
From Publishers WeeklyOkay, it’s not exactly news that Napoleon miscalculated in trying to invade Russia in the dead of winter or that David Caruso hurt his career by leaving NYPD ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Small-town sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin - only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutal...