EDITORIAL REVIEW: A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Jap...
SUMMARY: Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller wi...
From Publishers WeeklyReaders will be delighted with this collection of original novellas tied to popular crime/fantasy series. The standout is Sniegoskis Noahs Orphans, in which a...
SUMMARY: From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable menone an artist and the other a journalist, w...
From Publishers WeeklyPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chabon teams up with the editors of Dave Eggers's McSweeney's magazine to create a fiction anthology with an innovative, simpl...
SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is th...
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t...
'Aubrey-Maturin - book 1' Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever...
SUMMARY:When Alias crosses swords with the underlings of the Lord of Westgate's criminal guild, known as The Faceless, he vows to destroy her. Accepting the challenge, Alias...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sis...