From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land_ and _Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can...
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu....
SUMMARY: "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance a...
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror tho...
"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago TribuneTwo-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in ...
SUMMARY: FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably t...
The untold story of a fascinating Renaissance man on an adventurous hunt for a lost civilizationan epic quest through castles, courts, mythologies, and the spectacular world of the...
From Publishers WeeklyThe Israeli author's stirring chronicle of one man's emotional disintegration delves into basic issues of Jewish history. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Inform....
A landmark in contemporary Australian literature, The Fat Man in History brought early acclaim to Peter Carey for his brilliant and ingenious fiction. These twelve stories introduc...
A sequel to the very popular Stones, Fanatics is a thrilling story in which the past and present collide in terrifying, riveting ways.Garnet Havelock has just finished his apprenti...