The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"-not to mention an official Genius-a trade paperback original and his first nonfiction collection ever.George Saunders's firs...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At a small-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The...
Product DescriptionOn an April morning in 1789 near the island of Tonga, William Bligh and eighteen surly seamen were expelled from the Bounty and began the greatest open-boat voya...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In this ingenious literary thriller from Gruber (_The Witch's Boy_), the lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the ....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Christine Barber is new to the Southwest in the sense that *The Replacement Child* is her first novel. But she has a great feel for the territory and for the fam...
SUMMARY: Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hardbitten men of the Black Company take the...
From Publishers WeeklyWallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a mess...
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga,The Belly of Parisis the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Retur...
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 ...