An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remark...
From Publishers WeeklyIstanbul straddles the divide of Europe and Asia, and its polyglot population of 12 million seethes with political, religious and sexual tensions, as shown in...
Review"As appealing to wine-lovers as it is to the simply curious–and to those who like to start their sentences, ‘Ah yes, but did you know . . . ?’–_Is This Bottle Corked?_ answer...
SUMMARY: In the richest neighbourhood of Minneapolis, two elderly women lie murdered in their home, beaten to death with a metal pipe, the rooms ransacked, only small items stolen....
SUMMARY: In the conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that began with Sea Swept and Rising Tides , Philip Quinn's bond to his adopted brother, Seth, is threatened by a young woman...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An inseparable bond. An insatiable force. **Battling his own personal demons, Police Chief Jonah Westfall knows the dark side of life and has committed himself ...
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes ap...
Miss Silver attempts to save a young girl from her murderous husband Maud Silver, demure private eye, hardly has time to finish one adventure before another demands her attention. ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The national bestselling Noble Dead saga is “one of those [series] for which the term dark fantasy was definitely intended” (*Chronicle*).** After her adventure...