Review"A skilled narrator with great powers of witty invention.... William Boyd has established himself as an accomplished and adventurous writer."?_The New York Times Book Review_...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is t...
The choices I had made led to the moment when fate took over. I would learn a lesson I wasn't prepared for. And Death would be my willing teacher.Five years ago, Abbey Chandler che...
SUMMARY: Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstra...
SUMMARY: In Old Tin Sorrows, hard-boiled private eye Garrett is back in action--trying to help out an old Army buddy, Blake Peters. Apparently, there is an unearthly plot on the li...
Liam never knew who his father was. The town of Derry had always assumed that he was the bastard of a protestant — his mother never spoke of him, and Liam assumed he was dead. But ...
SUMMARY:“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Od...
SUMMARY:An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel 'I was covered in blood, but it wasn't mine, so it was okay.' Edward is a hit man. He specialises in monsters. Vampires, shape-...
SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [...