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The Golden Acorn - Catherine Cooper
SUMMARY:The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries... -
The Game - Neil Strauss
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it.Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist, men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques o... -
The Finkler Questione - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY:'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspec... -
The Feng Shui Detective's Caseb - Nury Vittachi
SUMMARY:A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he's not a detective, he's a fe... -
The Fallen Sky - Christopher Cokinos
From The New YorkerIn 1894, fifteen years before his storied expedition to the North Pole, Robert Peary crossed a treacherous expanse of ice in Greenland in search of another prize... -
The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ... -
The Dominion War 01_ Behind Ene - John Vornholt
SUMMARY:From the Gamma quadrant they came -- hordes of fierce Jem'Hadar warriors commanded by the mysterious Changelings, who will stop at nothing to achieve victory over bo... -
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In **Snow Crash**, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in **The Diamond Age**, he delivers anothe... -
The Confession - John Grisham
From Publishers WeeklyGrisham's recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren't able to support an e... -
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote - Lawrence Block
From Publishers Weekly Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warn...