SUMMARY: A stunning historical novel, 'The Book of Fires' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel ' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-yea...
SUMMARY: It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. ...
Amazon.com ReviewAuthor Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (, ) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Chann...
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection <b>The Boat</b> take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering ves...
SUMMARY: From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving o...
THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they've taken wildly divergent paths,...
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Geraldine Brooks, this year's collection will be another "sure bet for gripping, emotional challenging reading" (San Diego Union-Tr...
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they ....
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...