ReviewI long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to pl...
From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land_ and _Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can...
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu....
SUMMARY: Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author ofA Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragi...
SUMMARY: "Octavia E. Butler is one of the finest voices in fiction---period. . . . A master storyteller, Butler casts an unflinching eye on racism, sexism, poverty, and ignorance a...
A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror tho...
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and International Thriller Writers, Inc., present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organizati...
"Narrative history in the great tradition . . ." Chicago TribuneTwo-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and bestselling author Barbara W. Tuchman analyzes the American Revolution in ...
SUMMARY: Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game -winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel-and enter his Universe through this co...