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Alta - Mercedes Lackey
From Publishers WeeklyAs in its predecessor Joust (2003), a clear, uncluttered style marks Lackey's latest light entertainment about wizards and dragons and social struggle. Vetch ... -
A World Without Ice - H. N. Pollack
SUMMARY: A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relati... -
A Widow's Story_ A Memoir - Joyce Carol Oates
From Publishers WeeklyEarly one morning in February 2008, Oates drove her husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was admitted with pneumonia. There, he de... -
A War of Gifts_ An Ender Story - Orson Scott Card
From Publishers WeeklyCard returns to his Hugo and Nebula award-winning Enderverse saga (after 2005's Shadow of the Giant) with a heartwarming novella for the holidays. When Zeck .... -
A Stranger in Mayfair - Charles Finch
From Publishers WeeklySet in 1860s London, Finch's middling fourth mystery featuring gentleman detective Charles Lenox (after 2009's The Fleet Street Murders) finds Lenox newly mar... -
A False Mirror - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd's series set in post-WWI England (after 2006's Long Shadow) showcases the pseudonym... -
A Christmas Promise - Anne Perry
From Publishers WeeklyWhile bestseller Perry doesn't offer much of a puzzle in her seventh Christmas-themed Victorian historical (after 2008's A Christmas Grace), she does a highl.... -
2012_ The War for Souls - Whitley Strieber
From Publishers WeeklyStrieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggl.... -
2010_ Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was published in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for ... -
1635_ Cannon Law - Eric Flint; Andrew Dennis
From Publishers WeeklyFlint and Dennis's solid follow-up to 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004), also set in Renaissance Italy, offers a deliciously Machiavellian plot. The temporally....