SUMMARY: Selected as a 2003 Popular Paperback for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association Long ago, so the storyteller claimed, the evil God Torak sought domin...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothi...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charle...
SUMMARY: What bones are buried in the shadows of the past? Asked to join in a dig at the site of the eighteenth–century Chandler House, archaeologist Emma Fielding and her student ...
Amazon.com ReviewAnne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our h....
Product DescriptionIt is the end of a nearly perfect society. Beautiful, happy people still drive electric cars to fulfilling jobs like any other day, but no one noticed that the A...
From Publishers WeeklyThis evolutionary history of the English language from author and editor McWhorter (The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language) isn't an easy read, but...
Review"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."–NORMAN MAILER Product DescriptionPublished when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, ...
From Publishers WeeklyThis second thriller in the series Woods inaugurated with Orchid Beach starts with a bang a literal one. While series heroine Holly Barker, a former military ...
SUMMARY: 1945: a German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnaj kull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, th...