From Publishers WeeklyAfter the dissolution of her marriage, beautiful English artist Leonora Manin is hired as an apprentice glassblower in the Venetian suburb of Murano, in Fiora...
Review"Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. His gift of invention never tempted him be...
Review“The best book I know of for talented but unacknowledged creators. . . . A masterpiece.” —Margaret Atwood “No one who is invested in any kind of art . . . can read The Gif...
A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specte...
From Publishers WeeklySet in the 1950s, Steel's account of a family coming to terms with a child's death spent 12 weeks on PW's bestseller list. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Inform...
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit worldWhat if a world -renowned philosopher and professo...
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never r...
From Publishers WeeklyFans of bestseller DeMille will welcome this sequel to The Gold Coast (1990), in which Susan Sutter, then the wife of tax attorney John Sutter, had a torrid ....