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The Winning Hand - Nora Roberts
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Did you say I won almost two million dollars'? Running away from her former life, and her controlling fiance, Darcy Wallace was down to her last ten dollars. And... -
The Water Wars - Cameron Stracher
Review"THE WATER WARS is a gripping environmental thriller with a too-real message. Cameron Stracher tells a story with quick pacing, compelling characters and a vision of a fright... -
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
SUMMARY: In this tale by William Shakespeare, Prospero--the rightful Duke of Milan--has been usurped and, along with his daughter Miranda, has been exiled on an island for twelve y... -
The Song Before It Is Sung - Justin Cartwright
On July 20, 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. He had the main conspirators brutally strung up on meat hooks. Among the executed was Axel von Gottberg, a... -
The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch; Willa Muir
From Publishers WeeklySpanning some 20 years, Broch's epic trilogy of daily life in Germany established him as an important modernist innovator. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business... -
The Right Hand of Sleep - John Wray
From Publishers WeeklyThe ghost hovering over this assured and astonishingly mature first novel is that of Joseph Roth, the great interwar Austrian novelist. Perhaps this reflects ... -
The President's Daughter - Mariah Stewart
From Publishers WeeklyWhile writing a biography of Graham Hayward, the upright and highly regarded former president of the United States, journalist Simon Keller, the books rather ... -
The Perfect Assassin - Ward Larsen
From Publishers WeeklyLarsen's competent debut has many of the right ingredients for a successful spy thriller: plenty of action, technical detail that would do Tom Clancy proud, a... -
The Mystery of the Dead Man's R - William Arden
SUMMARY:Three young detectives go on a high-stakes treasure hunt in order to restore a fortune to the rightful heirs. -
The Midden - Tom Sharpe
Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why fri...