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Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington
The hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a "lunatic scheme" to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the... -
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A major decision about me is being made, and no one's bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion." The only reason Anna was born wa... -
Murder at the Washington Tribun - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyInstead of using an actual D.C. locale, Truman sets her solid 21st mystery (after 2004's Murder at Union Station) at the fictional Washington Tribune -
Murder at Union Station - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyThe Truman franchise chugs along with little sign of losing steam in the 20th entry (after 2002's Murder at Ford's Theatre) in this reliably entertaining ser.... -
Majestic - Whitley Strieber
From Publishers WeeklyStrieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in this novel, a blend of fact and fiction. Working... -
Literary Occasions_ Essays - V. S. Naipaul; Pankaj Mishra
From Publishers WeeklyOne imagines many readers are still absorbing The Writer and the World, Naipaul's magisterial collection of deeply opinionated global political reports and cu... -
Let's Get Lost - Sarra Manning
SUMMARY: A compelling YA novel from the best-selling author of Guitar Girl! Isabel is the girl who rules the school with an iron fist and a gang of minions who do her bidding. Her ... -
Killing Ground - Steve Lyons
SUMMARY:The Doctor takes his new companion, Grant, back home to Agora, only to find the planet under the control of his old and deadly foes the Cybermen. Imprisoned on arriv... -
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, July 2011: Whatever your opinion of Scientology, the truth is more extreme. Inside Scientology is journalist Jane... -
How to Travel With a Salmon and - Umberto Eco
In these "impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent" essays (Atlantic Monthly), "the Andy Rooney of academia" (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats,...