It is October 1936. Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, to recover certain letters stolen from the...
SUMMARY: A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part...
This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United St...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a hi...
From Publishers WeeklyMurakami's lightning prose more than sustains the elaborate plot of this thriller, set in a Tokyo of the near future. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information...
SUMMARY:Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ...Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister M...
Amazon.com ReviewFor Whom the Bell Tolls begins and ends in a pine-scented forest, somewhere in Spain. The year is 1937 and the Spanish Civil War is in full swing. Robert Jordan, ....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jessilyn Lassiter never knew that hatred could lurk in the human heart until the summer of 1932 when she turned 13. When her best friend, Gemma, loses her parents...
SUMMARY: Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the UnitedStates is instantly, thunderous...