Review"Haygood's book is certainly one of the best biographies of a boxer ever written . . . an important contribution to both sports literature and African American studies."-Gera...
SUMMARY: Katie Wilkinson has finally found the perfect man - but one day he suddenly disappears, leaving behind only a diary written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby, Nic...
FromStarred Review Whether he's writing Hap Collins-Leonard Pine mysteries, genre-bending horror novels, or his own blend of historical fiction and gritty country noir, cult-favor....
The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vaste...
A dazzling work of fiction from a scientist who has shaped his considerable knowledge into equally considerable art: brief vignettes that present a stunning array of possible world...
Amazon.com ReviewToni Morrison's highly acclaimed novel Sula is as gripping on audiotape as it is on paper. The Nobel Prize-winning writer narrates the unabridged version of the b....
SUMMARY:In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering...
LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.In "Suicide Run," the apparent suicide of a beautiful young starlet turns out to ...
Amazon.com ReviewDo you know what makes you happy? Daniel Gilbert would bet that you think you do, but you are most likely wrong. In his witty and engaging new book, Harvard profe....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday *New York Times*, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all a...