SUMMARY: Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval o...
From Publishers WeeklyNo one quite understands anyone else in Row's Hong Kong, a city suffused by a pervasive sense of alienation. In the seven stories of this debut collection, Ro...
Heinrich Böll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern f...
SUMMARY: Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. Fr...
SUMMARY: Itrs"s December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russiars"s Far East. The tiger isnrs"t just killing people, itrs"s annihilating the...
Amazon.com ReviewFor Steve Berry, it's a fortuitous coincidence that his third novel, a Vatican-centered conspiracy thriller titled The Third Secret, was published in the immediat....
SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Vanishing Acts, " offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbre...
SUMMARY: Abbey of Ruac, rural France: A medieval script is discovered hidden behind an antique bookcase. Badly damaged, it is sent to Paris for restoration, and there literary hist...
Product DescriptionSummoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. Tris seeks new allies from among the ...
SUMMARY: A young boy's dreams of glory and war turn into a bitter nightmare as his father's kingdom is overrun by an invading army. Lost and alone in the woods, he finds an ancient...