From Publishers WeeklyDrawing on a range of sources, in addition to The Odyssey, Atwood scripts the narrative of Penelope, the faithful and devoted wife of Odysseus and her 12 maid...
From Publishers WeeklyShortly after ex-spy Lang Reilly's sister dies in an explosion in her Paris home, a reproduction of a painting by the 17th-century artist Poussin, which his s...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h...
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Sarah Addison Allen She put a penny on her windowsill and cracked the window, because her grandmother once said that ...
Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" lif...
Amazon.com ReviewAuthor Paula McLain on The Paris Wife Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagge...
Amazon.com ReviewAccording to author Loren Cordain, modern health and diet problems didn't start with the advent of packaged snack food, but much earlier--back at the dawn of the a...
Product DescriptionThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself...
Product DescriptionThe Double Diamond Triangle Saga continues! Lord Piergeiron has fallen ill, but his loyal retainers prepare to rescue his abducted fiancee. But their quest lies ...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Though Erdrich's latest lyrical novel returns to Ojibwe territory (_Four Souls_; Love Medicine, etc.), it departs from the concentrated vigor....