From Publishers WeeklyMcDevitt (_Seeker_) avoids flashy action scenes in this tale of two friends using a time machine to take a grand tour of history. When Adrian Shel Shelbourne'...
Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955. They came on a whim, and for Conroy it was the beginning of a lifelong love affair with this "small, re...
Stan is an intense sixteen-year-old loner who desperately wants to make the junior varsity basketball team. And it seems that he may be about to do so, until he's blindsided by the...
Alaska is a place where know-how is currency and a novice's mistakes can kill you. An extreme landscape in both its beauty and challenges, the state is nicknamed "The Last Frontier...
In the spring of 1975 a trio of neophyte businessmen backed an old Chrysler onto a sun-baked Arizona driveway and convened in their new office. The garage start-up, dubbed Ticketma...
SUMMARY:When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and solitude, and for ten ...
SUMMARY: A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” InThunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely ...
SUMMARY: The author of The Blood of Roses presents the dark forests and royal intrigues ues of medieval England. En route to her wedding, Lady Servanne's party is attacked by notor...