SUMMARY: FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD LEO NORTH’S prospects in life are limited. He attends military school, lives with his fearful grandmother, and looks after his brother Stirling. He resist...
SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long af...
SUMMARY:The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island's sin...
SUMMARY: Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the...
Amazon.com ReviewThe Enchantress of Florence is about the power of story--whether it is the imagined life of a Mughal queen, or the devastating secret held by a silver-tongued Flo....
SUMMARY:After receiving a strange invitation, the first Doctor, Steven and Vicki travel to Venice in 1609, where the political machinations of humans are overshadowed by som...
Beginning on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, this is the story of an archaeologist who becomes obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king, exploring themes of class, ...
From School Library JournalGrade 7–10—Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. Al...
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling w...
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets I...