"Magisterial history...one of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1900 international trade reached unpr...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to the savage and surprising world of *Zoo Story*, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based ...
Review“Block is one of the best!” —_The Washington Post_Product DescriptionA small town with some very big libidos comes to life in this quirky erotic novel
SUMMARY: Innocence will be sacrificed... On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled and in the night sky, the aurora boreali...
Amazon.com ReviewDenise Holden's life is a fragile mix of luck and hard work. A single mom of a speech-delayed son, Denise makes ends meet by moving to the small town of Edenton, N...
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from...
Product DescriptionThe #1 National Bestseller by the author of The Hammer of Eden His code name: "The Sphinx." His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that...
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...
From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp...
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous an...