Review"Landy's book delivers what has gone long and scandalously missing: a philosophical analysis of Proust's incomparable book that is muscular, concise, philosophically informed...
SUMMARY: Intrepid treasure hunters believe they have discovered the final resting place of Fantome, a legendary warship that wrecked off Nova Scotia almost two hundred years ago. S...
SUMMARY: On the day she awoke remembering nothing but her name, Kahlan Amnell became the most dangerous woman alive. For everyone else, that was the day that the world began to en...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - 'no freedom,...
Sage Dunbar is dealt a shattering double blow when she discovers that her fiance has depleted her bank accounts and her father has been having an affair. Reeling with shock, she...
SUMMARY: The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength, Perelandra continues the adventures of th...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott, Charle...
FromThe follow-up to Nightingale's Lament (2004) finds John Taylor reeling from the discovery that his mother is the legendary Lilith of biblical times and that she is responsible....
Anyone who's read knows about the devastating consequences that Columbus's voyage and ensuing colonization had on the native people of the Americas and Africa. In a thought-provoki...
Amazon.com ReviewBritish-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Rab...