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The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
SUMMARY: THE SWORD OF SHANNARALong ago, the wars of the ancient Evil had ruined the world and forced mankind to compete with many other races--gnomes, trolls, dwarfs, and elves. Bu... -
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
Amazon.com Review"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the cit... -
The Siege of Macindaw - John Flanagan
SUMMARY: After years as a Ranger’s apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong does: Keren, a renegade knight, ... -
The Shadow Isle - Katharine Kerr
'Prepare to get lost in the magic' (_VOYA_) of Katharine Kerr's popular Deverry fantasy series. The Shadow Isle is the long-awaited conclusion to the phenomenal Dev... -
The Seventh Witch - Shirley Damsgaard
SUMMARY: Small-town librarian and psychic Ophelia Jensen hails from a long line of wise and wonderfully gifted women. There's her grandmother, Abby, a talented witch, and her great... -
The Reversal - Michael Connelly
SUMMARY: Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted... -
The Rational Optimist_ How Pros - Matt Ridley
From Publishers WeeklyIdeas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire ... -
The Race Beat - Gene Roberts; Hank Klibanoff; R
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi... -
The Rabbi of Lud - Stanley Elkin
A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshell The only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that... -
The Potters Field_ The Seventee - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In October of 1142, a local landlord gives the Potter's Field to the local clergy. The monks begin to plow it, and the blades turn up the long tresses of a young ...