Amazon.com ReviewThe Enchantress of Florence is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Flo....
SUMMARY: At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy tha...
From Publishers WeeklyIn the solid latest from veteran novelist Doig (_The Whistling Season_), 11 starters of a close-knit Montana college championship football team enlist as the ...
Product DescriptionEdinburgh 1827. In the starkly-lit operating theatres of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewh...
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling w...
Amazon.com ReviewLike his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told f...
From School Library JournalGrade 6 Up—In this final installment in the trilogy, Chima spins a finely structured tale that roars to a satisfying conclusion. For readers new to the s...
From Publishers WeeklyThe cantina scene in Star Wars, as Niven (_Ringworld_) points out in his introduction, partakes of "a hoary old tradition," as do the 27 Draco Tavern st...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. A letter posted in 1941 finally reaches its destination in 1992 with powerful repercussions for Edie Burchill, a London book editor, in this e...