From Publishers WeeklyIn his ambitious debut, Gallaway jumps backward and forward in time between two cities, spiraling in on four characters connected by music: Lucien, an opera s...
Product DescriptionA shadowy figure hires a group of unemployed pirates to aid him on a dangerous mission. But the mission has a hidden purpose, and somewhere behind the scenes it ...
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from...
SUMMARY: "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time "A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The N...
Founded by Johns Hopkins University, the Meatless Monday” campaign counts among its fans Michael Pollan, Sheryl Crow, and Paul McCartney. From Baltimore Public Schools to the city...
SUMMARY: Cassidy Outlaw left her high-powered legal job-and the unscrupulous lawyer fiance who broke her heart- to return to Texas. Here, life is simpler and the people more authen...
SUMMARY: Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, t...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of *The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart*, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war, pow...
SUMMARY: Jason Manning is content with his life as a bachelor, a slob and a sports fan. Then a precocious girl named Carrie Weston decides to play matchmaker, introducing him to he...
SUMMARY: His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged ...