Product DescriptionThomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the G...
SUMMARY: When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying shers"s in danger and needs his help, he ...
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth...
Product Description"In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."--Stanley Kauffmann <.....
ReviewThe secrets revealed and the emotions exposed make this a compelling read. (Charlotte Observer ) Grief, friendship, marriage, love and uncertainty—it’s all here—portrayed...
When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt...
SUMMARY:It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a s...
Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum, has long been interested in the works of Joyce. Eco's essay, as does Santoro-Brienza's, celebrates joyce's deep...
From Publishers WeeklyRoughly one-fourth of these essays deals with the response of the media, various governments and Rushdie himself to what he calls the "unfunny Valentine" he r...