It is difficult to think of any home that can do without Elizabeth David's "French Provincial Cooking" ...One could cook for a lifetime on the book alone' - "Observer". Elizabeth D...
A frequent contributor to the New York Times magazine, Outside, Salon, and GQ, and a regular on Public Radio International's "This American Life,"David Rakoff's ...
SUMMARY: Meet Rossamünda foundling, a boy with a girls name who is about to begin a dangerous life in the service of the Emperor of the Half-Continent. What starts as a simple jour...
ReviewI long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to pl...
From Publishers WeeklyA juicy, sprawling beach read with a suspenseful twist, Richards's sunny sequel to Happiness Key reveals the next life step for Tracy Deloche and her tenant ....
SUMMARY:Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For suc...
SUMMARY: Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author ofA Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragi...
Synopsis:James Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist. But for the past thirty-five years of his professional life, he has also been active as an inv...
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror tho...