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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smi - Peter Carey
From Publishers WeeklyCarey, known for his quirkily skewed re-creations of Australian culture (Oscar and Lucinda; The Tax Collector), has outdone himself in this bizarre, uncannily... -
The Unnatural Inquirer - Simon R. Green
From Publishers WeeklyThe engaging eighth book in Green's popular offbeat Nightside series (after 2006's Hell to Pay) drops another paranormal mystery in the lap of series hero Joh... -
The Unexpected Guest - Agatha Christie
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Along a mist-shrouded country road in South Wales on a chilly November evening, engineer Michael Starkwedder's car stands hopel... -
The Undertaker's Gift - Trevor Baxendale
SUMMARY: The Hokrala Corp lawyers are back. They're suing planet Earth for mishandling the twenty-first century, and they won't tolerate any efforts to repel them. An assassin has ... -
The Uncensored Bible - John Kaltner
We all know the story of how Eve was created from Adam's rib. But what if, perhaps, "rib" was a mistranslation and the body part she was really created from was Adam's penis bone? ... -
The Ultimate Chocolate Cookie B - Bruce Weinstein
Can you ever have enough chocolate? Not Likely! -
The Tyranny of the Night - Glen Cook
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to the world of the Instrumentalities of the Night, where imps, demons, and dark gods rule in the spaces surrounding upstart humanity. At the edges of the... -
The Two-Income Trap - Elizabeth Warren; Amelia Warren
From Publishers WeeklyWarren, a law professor at Harvard (The Fragile Middle Class) and her daughter Tyagi, a former McKinsey consultant, have joined forces here to argue here that... -
The Two Towers - J. R. R. Tolkien
EDITORIAL REVIEW: For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever w... -
The Twilight Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
SUMMARY: Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a...