From Publishers WeeklyThe muddy, bloody horrors of WWI continue to haunt Insp. Ian Rutledge, back at work at Scotland Yard, but just barely. Still guilt-stricken over his wartime m...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book *Chicago Tribune*, *Christian Science Monitor*, *The Washington Post* and *Los Angeles Times* Best Book of the Y...
SUMMARY: Barry Unsworth, a writer with an “almost magical capacity for literary time travel” (New York Times Book Review) has the extraordinary ability to re-create the past and ma...
Review"A funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . Easy to read and hard to forget."--Time"Eloquent, reckless, hilarious . . . plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mys...
SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaw...
SUMMARY: From Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of Kushiel's Scion, comes the second adventure in the Imriel trilogy. Imriel de la Courcel's blood parents are his...
From Publishers WeeklyBecause of rising taxes on his village and the untimely deaths of his parents and sister, young Krispos is forced to leave the family farm and seek his fortun...
SUMMARY:Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, w...
SUMMARY: "Kokoro" is one of the classics of Japanese literature. Soseki introduces readers to the Japanese modern culture and its effect on the young generation of that time. Autho...