SUMMARY: Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himse...
ReviewVirtually any story in this collection contains more art than 98% of the thousands of novels published in this country in the past five years. Elkin's stories are fully reali...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In order to shield our shattered collective psyche from a long history of setbacks and disillusionment... we cultivate communal and historical...
Beginning dramatically with the opening of Haydn s grave two days after his death in October 1820, Cranioklepty takes us on an extraordinary history of a peculiar kind of obsession...
Product DescriptionIn an epic novel that chronicles the history of the land of Cormyr and its generations of powerful kings and wizards, Cormyr faces catastrophe as King Azoun IV f...
SUMMARY: In the same vein as Marley and Me and My Dog Skip, this “mostly true” novel is at once a whimsical campfire mystery and a universal story about the friendship between a ma...
From Library JournalPearce's 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenp...
The largest private gun squad in history follows Bolan to France, only to find the war has started without them, and 20 dead Frenchmen are mute testimony to the profinciency of the...
Amazon.com ReviewIt is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of...
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution.Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fil...