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...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of...
SUMMARY: Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Collected together for the first time in hardcover, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous ...
Amazon.com ReviewIn Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless ....
SUMMARY: Recording the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as he travelled in Tibet with Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, this novel follows Holmes's brush with the Great Game, with Colonel Cre...
SUMMARY: What if V-E Day didn’t end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in th...
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa
From Publishers WeeklyThe authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and Th...
Since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death, other mystery writers have produced innumerable new stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. Veteran editor Mike Ashley has compiled the biggest col...