From Publishers WeeklyNo one quite understands anyone else in Row's Hong Kong, a city suffused by a pervasive sense of alienation. In the seven stories of this debut collection, Ro...
Heinrich Böll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern f...
SUMMARY: Sivakami was married at ten, widowed at eighteen, and left with two children. According to the dictates of her caste, her head is shaved and she puts on widow's whites. Fr...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: “The scenes in which Huss tracks her killer through the underbelly of Copenhagen are as good as Louise Welsh’s similarly creepy tour of Glasgow in *The Cutting Ro...
SUMMARY: Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn't deal with electronic appliances-he fixes situations for people, often putting himself in deadly danger. ...
Product DescriptionThe third title in a classic trilogy about the giants of the Forgotten Realms world.Giants are little written about, and this trilogy, written by New York Times ...
SUMMARY: Itrs"s December 1997 and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russiars"s Far East. The tiger isnrs"t just killing people, itrs"s annihilating the...
SUMMARY: Captain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life. Following his dismissal from the Royal Navy (a false accusation), he has earned reinstateme...
The 250th-anniversary edition of the influential treatise on social responsibility that has shaped leaders from Bill Gates to Barack Obama Best known for his revolutionary free-mar...