From School Library JournalAdult/High School-Iselle, the royesse (princess) of Chalion, and her lady-in-waiting, Bertriz, need a new tutor. Cazaril, the man chosen for the job, has...
SUMMARY:'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories compo...
Alice Walker's masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she po...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **An extraordinary cutting-edge thriller from the *New York Times*-bestselling grandmaster of international suspense. ** Meticulous research, crisp narratives, pl...
SUMMARY: From two masters of dark fantasy comes a chilling tale of magic and possession, set in-and beneath-fabulous Venice, a city slowly being swallowed by the very waters that h...
SUMMARY: FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through y...
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection <b>The Boat</b> take us across the globe, from the slums of Colombia to Iowa City; from the streets of Tehran to a foundering ves...
Product DescriptionA superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master ...mile Zola considered The Beast Within-also kno....