SUMMARY:China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the ...
SUMMARY: Kirpal Singh is travelling on the slow train to Kashmir. As India passes by the window in a stream of tiny lights, glistening fields and huddled, noisy towns, he reflects ...
Product DescriptionAll in a day's work for a Splinter Cell®He is Sam Fisher: Third Echelon special operative. And when a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material is he...
SUMMARY: Marika, leader of the silth, who are known for their psychic powers, challenges her enemies with a plan to use solar mirrors in space to end the world's permanent winter
From Publishers WeeklyMedieval Spain's caste system can't keep a good man down in this absorbing epic, a Spanish-language bestseller. Arnau Estanyol, son of a fugitive peasant, sta...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **This catch of the day could be the dish of a lifetime!** **First Date à la Maggie** Take one lovelorn diner owner (me) A generous helping of nosy local gossips ...
It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved mode...
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari...
Amazon.com ReviewOld favorite. Bestselling author Nora Roberts grabs her readers from page one. Innocence, Mississippi, isn't innocent for long when a murderer strikes the sleepy t...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Returning to Elmwood Springs, Mo., (where her sprawling 2002 novel, Standing in the Rainbow, chronicled the small town's inhabitants over fiv....