Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ...
SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long af...
SUMMARY:The Doctor finds himself transported back in time to a legendary lost island in the Pacific. There he encounters an expedition attempting to exploit the island's sin...
SUMMARY: Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him h...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Peter F. Hamilton's startling perspectives on tomorrow's technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as th...
Amazon.com ReviewThis surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolu...
Pressure cookers will boost flavor and cut cooking time a whopping 70 percent-but only if you know how to use them. In this cookbook, author Pamela Rice Hahn teaches you about the ...
From Publishers WeeklyLiss (_A Conspiracy of Paper_) recycles familiar conventions—drug dealers, missing money, an innocent hero mixed up with bad guys—but salvages his novel from ...
From Publishers WeeklyA Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she disco...