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An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
From Publishers WeeklyMartin compresses the wild and crazy end of the millennium and finds in this piercing novel a sardonic morality tale. Lacey Yeager is an ambitious young art d... -
An Irish Country Village - Patrick Taylor
From Publishers WeeklyThis highly readable sequel to An Irish Country Doctor follows the trials and exultations of Dr. Barry Laverty as he begins his assistantship to Dr. Fingal F.... -
An Evening of Long Goodbyes - Paul Murray
From Publishers WeeklyIf Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster were plopped into the 21st century, his adventures might resemble those of Charles Hythloday, the buffoonish hero of Murray's in... -
An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge
From Publishers WeeklyA Booker Prize nominee, Bainbridge's latest novel is a compelling read, again demonstrating her acuity of observation and darkly comic view of life. In Stella... -
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' - Brock Clarke
Amazon.com ReviewAn Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New Englan, the quirkiest title for a book since --Brad Thomas ParsonsFrom Publishers Weekly -
American Outrage - Tim Green
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Green (_Kingdom Come_) introduces a tough, appealing hero in his action-packed 12th thriller. Jake Carlson, a correspondent for the tabloid TV news... -
American Empire_ The Victorious - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe latest volume in Turtledove's colossal and brilliant saga of an alternate (and disunited) United States may be the strongest and most compelling since the... -
American Empire_ Blood and Iron - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyNobody plays the what-if game of alternative history better than Turtledove, especially when he has a large-scale subject and when he's working close enough t... -
American Colossus_ The Triumph - H. W. Brands
From Publishers WeeklyIn this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J... -
American Chica_ Two Worlds, One - Marie Arana
From Publishers WeeklyThough this memoir of growing up in America and Peru centers on Arana's parents' turbulent marriage, her real focus is the way cultures define, limit and enri...