From Publishers WeeklyShortly after ex-spy Lang Reilly's sister dies in an explosion in her Paris home, a reproduction of a painting by the 17th-century artist Poussin, which his s...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h...
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Sarah Addison Allen She put a penny on her windowsill and cracked the window, because her grandmother once said that ...
SUMMARY: chapter oneNathalie DupreeThe first actual cooking teacher who took both my money and my grief for imparting culinary secrets to me was the inimitable, unclassifiable quee...
Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led a remarkably "modern" lif...
Amazon.com ReviewAuthor Paula McLain on The Paris Wife Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagge...
Product DescriptionDetermined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the Great Desert. falls to the intruders, hel...
Product DescriptionThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, IL, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Though Erdrich's latest lyrical novel returns to Ojibwe territory (_Four Souls_; Love Medicine, etc.), it departs from the concentrated vigor....
SUMMARY: Jodi Picoult's extraordinary tale of love, friendship and family dares to explore the terrifying secrets that lurk in the hearts of the people we think we know inside and ...