From BooklistUnnamed and rejected by her mother, a girl (known as the lass) jumps at the chance to leave her meager home after a great white bear offers her a deal: if she accompan...
ReviewIt's a wildly leftist novel of love, war and death; Townsend Warner chucks thelot into her simmering story, but it remains skilfully crafted. Brilliantlyentertaining and ...
Review'Highly entertaining.' Heat Product DescriptionSugar and Spice . . . Not everyone's nice.Fresh from being betrayed by one of her closest friends, new reality-t...
FromIn the mystery genre, there's always room for a new premise, and Swain has come up with a doozy: his hero, Tony Valentine, is an ex-cop who specializes in catching casino cheat...
Just in time for New Year's resolutions, learn how to reach your goals-finally-by overcoming the many hurdles that have defeated you before. Most of us have no idea why we fail to ...
Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and ...
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath ...
The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe" (Cynthia Ozick) Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great lo...