From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece...
From Publishers WeeklyIf there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem's status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race rela...
Amazon.com ReviewIn the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to wi...
John Timmons is a responsible rancher who saves a young woman from hanging and begins to let her into his heart. When she brings danger into the lives of his family, he fears that ...
SUMMARY: In the stifling heat wave of June 1976, an American plane crashes on the Cambridgeshire Fens, the point of impact the remote Black Bank Farm. Out of the flames walks a you...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: FIRST SHE WAS WATCHED. In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just ...
From Publishers WeeklyA mixture of visionary progressivism and repugnant racism, Abraham Lincoln's attitude toward slavery is the most troubling aspect of his public life, one that...
Amazon.com ReviewThe stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in From Publishers WeeklyThis densely plotted book concludes the futuristic tale begun in Hyperi...
From Publishers WeeklyForensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances ...
From Publishers WeeklyLiss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventions—drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guys—but salvages his novel from ...