SUMMARY:Christopher Hitchens, described in theLondon Observeras "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time" takes on his biggest subject yetthe...
From BooklistStarred Review Larson's ambitious, engrossing tale of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 focuses primarily on two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect who was the...
Anne Perry’s magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world’s best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry...
From Publishers WeeklyForbes lists Sirleaf, the 23rd president of Liberia and the first elected female president on the African continent, among the 100 Most Powerful Women in 200....
SUMMARY: An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in t...
From Publishers WeeklyOne of Turkey's foremost novelists explores the ambivalent relationship between master and slave in this elegant, postmodernist twist on the theme of the dopp...
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Anne Perry's Treason at Lisson Grove and Execution Dock.A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down h...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: He has been called his generation's finest writer of international intrigue, one of America's most gifted spy novelists ever, and the successor to Graham Greene a...
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative sus...
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