From Publishers WeeklyLinked anecdotes about the perils of young womanhood from Australian author Wood trendily play off of antediluvian diction and antiquated women's advice colum...
SUMMARY:One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and c...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of S...
Product DescriptionAlthough frustrated in his attempt to acquire Steele Corporation, arrogant millionaire Cameron Cody will not be denied the firm's most attractive asset, Vanessa ...
Amazon.com ReviewGeorge Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a far cry from the upwardly mobile, tourist-attraction-speckled enclave of Margaret Truman (_Murder at the National Cathedr...
SUMMARY: A hurricane is heading straight for the tiny coastal town of Turning Point, Texas. Four volunteers from Courage Bay Emergency Services rush to the townżs aid. Their lives ...
When Irishman Jago Mershan travels to a Kentucky horse farm to enact his brother's plan to destroy the Montgomerie family, he finds himself hopelessly ensnared by his enemy's daugh...
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey thr...
During this savage civil war, all efforts to end Jacen Solo's tyranny of the Galactic Alliance have failed. Now with Jacen approaching the height of his dark powers, no one--not ev...
SUMMARY: After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t s...