SUMMARY: “This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece ... it’s so good it takes your breath away.”—Times (UK)After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns ho...
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....
Product DescriptionTen victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.In the mid-1980s th...
From Publishers WeeklyShapiro's debut, an imaginative, sensual rendering of a Parisian woman's life, is told through the voice of Trevor Stratton, a young American scholar and tran...
Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **YOU CAN'T PICK YOUR FAMILY...** Death by Chocolate is her favorite dessert. And those knitting needles aren't just for craft projects. To most people, Gin Bomba...