Review"One of the coolest and most sheerly enjoyable books of its kind . . . This is a beguiling and elegant debut from a gifted young writer: Brava!" —Kevin Jackson, author, Bite:...
In this little treasure, Thich Nhat Hanh offers us a Buddhist view of love along with techniques for manifesting it in our daily lives. In his characteristically direct, simple,...
Amazon.com Review"What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disrae....
SUMMARY: KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels "Triangle, The Little Women, The Music" "Lesson, "and "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than" "They Appear." She lives in Connectic...
SUMMARY: In this landmark autobiography, five years in the making, Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story--of his legendary family, politics, and fifty ye...
SUMMARY: A mysterious high-profile homicide in the nation's capital collides with the dark side of national security in David Baldacci's new, heart-stopping thriller. TRUE BLUE Mas...
SUMMARY:Outside the golden city of Troy, Prince Hektor leads the Trojan cavalry in daring raids against the forces led by his young rival, the peerless warrior Achilles. Mea...
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implicat...
'Absorbing! I now place Volkogonov's great biographical triptych [Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky] at the top of my reading list on the Russian revolution.' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times Fol...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A daring rescue sends Dirk Pitt on an adventure that will determine the future of the planet ...When a hurricane unexpectedly blows up off the coast of Nicaragua,...