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Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chroni - Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love st... -
Acts of Nature - Jonathon King
From Publishers WeeklyFlorida, hurricanes and crime make a potent mix, as shown in Edgar-winner King's fifth entry in his Max Freeman PI series (_The Blue Edge of Midnight_, etc.).... -
Act of Will - A. J. Hartley
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don't want you thinking you're going to get a ... -
Across the Bridge - Mavis Gallant; Robertson Davies
A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer who–like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro–has made Canadian short stories ... -
Accident - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyPacked with Steel's trademark dense plotting and incidents featuring everything from sexual abuse and infidelity to car crashes and impossible relatives, her ... -
Acacia_ Book One_ The War with - David Anthony Durham
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In this sprawling and vividly imagined fantasy, historical novelist Durham (_Pride of Carthage_) chronicles the downfall and reinvention... -
Absolutely Small - Michael D. Fayer
From Publishers WeeklyHow a photon can be in two places at once is just one of the conundrums of quantum physics that Fayer (Elements of Quantum Mechanics) helps to unravel. The St... -
Absolute Zero - Chuck Logan
From Publishers WeeklyEx-cop Phil Broker, hero of Logan's previous three thrillers (The Big Law, etc.), takes a break from managing his small Minnesota resort in this latest outing... -
A Writer at War_ Vasily Grossma - Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor;
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before ... -
A Widow's Story_ A Memoir - Joyce Carol Oates
From Publishers WeeklyEarly one morning in February 2008, Oates drove her husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was admitted with pneumonia. There, he de...