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The Street Philosopher - Matthew Plampin
SUMMARY: There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home ā the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused ā and the first on which the media had a m... -
The Soul Stealer - Alex Archer
SUMMARY: Annja Creed jumps at the chance to join a fellow archaeologist on a quest to find a relic. But she's not so thrilled about northern Siberia, where they are hoping to disco... -
The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch; Willa Muir
From Publishers WeeklySpanning some 20 years, Broch's epic trilogy of daily life in Germany established him as an important modernist innovator. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business... -
The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:At the home of Lord Caterham and his daughter, Lady Eileen Brent (aka Bundle), Sir Oswald and Lady Maria Coote throw a party for some weekend guests. But the young g... -
The Serial Killers Club - Jeff Povey
SUMMARY: When our hero finds himself in the path of a serial killer, he somehow manages to defend himself, and give the blood-thirsty madman a taste of his own medicine. But when h... -
The Secret Lives of People in L - Simon Van Booy
From Publishers WeeklyA breadth of experience and setting distinguishes this somber first collection of 18 very short stories by New York-based Van Booy. "Little Birds" is narrated... -
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's - Lola Shoneyin
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When Baba Segi awoke with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to do something drastic about his fourth wife's childlessness. Meet Baba Seg... -
The Secret History of the Mongo - Jack Weatherford
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret Histo... -
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
SUMMARY: A spoiled and sickly orphan blossoms into a creature of loving kindness in this unforgettable classic of childhood. At her uncle's forbidding Yorkshire estate, Mary joins ... -
The Science of Evil - Simon Baron-Cohen
A pathbreaking autism researcher explores why some people lack empathy and what that absence means for our psychological understanding of evil.