From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Dumpling: A Seasonal Guide* by Wai Hon Chu and Connie Lovatt is the most comprehensive collection of dumpling recipes ever produced. Discovering that dumplin...
Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets I...
Amazon.com ReviewLike his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told f...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A debut so magical so extraordinary it has to be read to be believed .** Imprisoned for life aboard a zeppelin that floats high above a fantastic metropolis, ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Archaeologist Annja Creed and her sword have never been outmatched— until now. When a surprise party for her mentor Roux includes some uninvited guests, Annja fin...
From Publishers WeeklyForgotten Realms creator Greenwood's fourth Band of Four book (after 2002's A Dragon's Ascension), with its gory and repetitive battle scenes, will please the...
SUMMARY: Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and geneticall...
SUMMARY: Pity the poor private eye (or official investigator, for that matter), who has to solve a case which may involve death by black magic, evidence that may have been altered ...
From Publishers WeeklyActors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin's Men...