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...
SUMMARY: There's a lethal new recreational drug out on the party circuit. To stop its spread, Team Darkwing must immerse themselves in New York City's nightlife, where they discove...
Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marr...
The stunning conclusion to the smash "New York Times" bestselling series the Wicked YearsHailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delici...
SUMMARY: As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's L...
From the Back Cover"Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf’s most intense and one of the most singular (novels) of our era."--Jorge Luis BorgesBegun as a "joke," Orlando is Virgi...
SUMMARY: Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “t...
SUMMARY: A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra-once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China-is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul drs"Ampere, w...
FromStarred Review Firing his New York publicist is the first thing Devon Sparks has done in a long time that feels right. The second thing is flirting outrageously with a go...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein, Scalzi's astonishingly proficient firs...