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Myths to live by - Joseph Campbell
SUMMARY: The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power o... -
Murder at the Library of Congre - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyThe theft from a private museum in Miami of a painting by 19th-century artist Fernando Reyes of Columbus offering his book of privileges to Ferdinand and Isab... -
Master of the Crossroads - Madison Smartt Bell
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1995 Madison Smartt Bell published __, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti's 18th-century sl... -
Jump! - Jilly Cooper
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Etta Bancroft -- sweet, kind, beautiful -- adores racing and harbours a crush on one of its stars, the handsome high-handed owner-trainer Rupert Campbell-Black. W... -
I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
SUMMARY: When David Barney was acquitted in the shooting death of his wife, Isabelle, a good many thought that justice had not been served -- including Kenneth Voight, Isabelle's f... -
How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Dave Tompkins
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weaponThe vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers dur... -
How the Soldier Repairs the Gra - Sasa Stanisic; Anthea Bell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The hardcover publication of *How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone* launched Stanisic as an exciting and important new voice in literary fiction and earned exub... -
How Few Remain - Harry Turtledove
From Library JournalIn 1862, the Confederacy won the War of the Rebellion (not by interference of time travelers, as in Turtledove's Guns of the South, LJ 9/1/92, but by their own ... -
Good Girls Don't - Kelley St. John
In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Al... -
Ghost Country - Patrick Lee
From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of Lee's dramatic sequel to Breach, gun men hit the motorcade in which Paige Campbell, who has just met with the U.S. president, is riding throug...