From Publishers Weekly Benford (The Martian Race), a physics professor at UC-Irvine and a Nebula winner for his novel Timescape, is one of the leading exponents of hard SFAwhich, no matter...
SUMMARY: The year is A.D. 922. A refined Arab courtier, representative of the powerful Caliph of Baghdad, encounters a party of Viking warriors who are journeying to the barbaric North. He is appalled...
Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking is the world's most popular quit smoking title, with an 80+% market share in the smoking cessation category. First published in the UK in 1985, it has sold over...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whos...
SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions ...
"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love."PEOPLECharlotte Emory has always lived a quiet, conventional life in Clarion, Maryland. She lives as simply as possible, and one d...
SUMMARY: High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and N...