From BooklistFinally, a good, up-to-date introduction to Islamic faith and history. Providing compelling analysis of contemporary Islam and its conflicts without overwhelming the r...
Amazon.com ReviewThe picture of Islam as a violent, backward, and insular tradition should be laid to rest, says Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of Muhammad and A History ...
From Publishers WeeklyAlthough this story spans the world of high society from Hollywood to Paris to London to Rome, essentially it is a moral tale about three hard-working girls t...
SUMMARY: When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a golden hoard greater than that of any pharaoh's vanished into history. Until NUMA agent DIRK PITT® dives into...
SUMMARY: Thomas Steinbeck has been praised by "Publishers Weekly "for his stylistic brilliance and "accomplished voice." Now, his enthralling novel "In the Shadow of the Cypress "b...
From Publishers WeeklyShamus and Edgar award–winner Lutz gives us further proof of his enormous talent for crafting great police fiction in his latest, a deceivingly standard story...
From Publishers WeeklyFresh from his masterful The Summer of 1787, Stewart takes on one of the seamiest events in American history: the vengeful impeachment of Lincoln's succ...
From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in 1985, this picaresque tale from Australian novelist Carey presents the life story of a highly unreliable 139-year-old con man. Copyright 19...
Amazon.com ReviewGenre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece Ilium. Within, Simmons weaves three astounding story lines into one E....
From Publishers WeeklyHollick (A Hollow Crown) constructs a magnificent epic in this unabashedly pro-Saxon recounting of a turning point in English history. Twenty-two years before...