Arminto Cordovil has inherited a fortune, and with it control of his father's shipping empire. But when a freighter, The Eldorado, crashes in the lower reaches of the Amazon, its s...
From the Back Cover"Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf’s most intense and one of the most singular (novels) of our era."--Jorge Luis BorgesBegun as a "joke," Orlando is Virgi...
From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outs...
SUMMARY: Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “t...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Possibly the only negative thing to say about Cole's intelligent and panoramic first novel is that it is a more generous account of the recent...
SUMMARY: 2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Edward HerrmannThe first blockbuster novel in the thrilling Op Center series.Op-Center is a beating heart of defense, intelligence, and crisis...
SUMMARY: Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man s...
FromIn his first novel, Taylor, a retired Delta Force commander, introduces Pike Logan, a member of a supersecret, off-the-grid unit of commandos authorized to work outside the law...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction** In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assign...
SUMMARY: Nine-year-old Oliver has spent his life in a workhouse orphanage, where he becomes notorious for daring to ask for more food. Frustrated and hungry, he runs away to London...