SUMMARY:A new six-part epic covering the first year of service of the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, leading up to the events of the hit movie Star Trek: First Contact. The U.S.S. Ent...
SUMMARY: This epic of urban life tells of small- town heroine Carrie Meeber, adrift in an indifferent Chicago. Setting out, she has nothing but a few dollars and an unspoiled beaut...
Welcome to Paradise.Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us.Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In his latest absorbing travel epic, Thubron (In Siberia; Mirror to Damascus) follows the course—or at least the general dr...
2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Peter Matthiessen's great American epic-Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, and Bone by Bone-was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but be...
SUMMARY:A masterpiece that is breathtaking in its scope, SARUM is an epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapesty weaves a compel...
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the consta...
For road warriors and armchair epicures alike, the seventh edition of <i>Roadfood</i> is the key to finding some of the tastiest treasures in the United States. The indispensable c...
Review'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail 'A brilliant warts-and-all depiction of Wellington's famous riflem...
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey thr...