EDITORIAL REVIEW: "Few, very few books have made my heart thud with excitement. H.M.S. Surprise managed it." 'Helen Lucy Burke, Irish Press Third in the series of Aubrey/Maturin ad...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples...
Product DescriptionWhen a crew from the Enterprise are beamed onto the planet Rampart - a world where works of fiction are considered the ultimate crime - they find themselves in t...
Product DescriptionWhile answering a distress call from a scientific station in a remote part of the glaxy, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM becomes infected with a mysterious alien l...
SUMMARY: Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies ...
From Publishers WeeklyIt's no surprise to find plenty of gothic touches in British author Fowler's debut mystery, the first in a series, given the renown of his horror fiction (_Ru...
SUMMARY: For Cheyenne Clark, there's a bad moon on the rise . . . There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl. When a ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ***Three to Get Deadly*** A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam-and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises,...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this absorbing, well-crafted biography, British historian, lecturer and TV consultant Williams charts the rise of 18th-century England's most celebrated se...