Amazon.com ReviewThe story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather th...
From Publishers WeeklyA daredevil pilot heads out on a wild goose chase and learns to slow down and enjoy life in Malone's (The Last Noel) exuberant but ultimately unwieldy 10th n....
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the...
From Publishers WeeklyReprint of Guterson's 1989 debut, a collection of short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From...
Amazon.com ReviewWith its hypnotic, staccato rhythms, and words jostling, bumping, marching forward with edgy intensity (like lemmings heading toward a cliff of their own devising)...
SUMMARY: Clive Cussler meets Dan Brown in this high voltage adventure thriller in which two ambitious young climbers stumble upon a great secret hidden in the depths of the Himalay...
SUMMARY: A political humorist's caustically hilarious month-by-month archive of the 1980s includes memorable photographs, newspaper headlines, press clippings, pop quizzes, outrage...
The team behind the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance turns conventional biography on its head—and shakes out the good stuff. Fo...
From Publishers WeeklyAn unseen bell haunts a seaside town and a magical mansion in this delicate fable from World Fantasy Award winner McKillip (_Od Magic_). Inside the baffling A...