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V_ - Thomas Pynchon
SUMMARY: Winner of the coveted William Faulkner Foundation First Novel Award in 1963, "V." remains a popular literary classic by one of America's great modernists. "This work may w... -
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit... -
Up, Simba! - David Foster Wallace
In February 2000, <I>Rolling Stone</I> magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST," on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Repub... -
Unexpectedly, Milo - Matthew Dicks
From Publishers WeeklyDicks offers another neurotic romp (after Something Missing), this one about a Connecticut home nurse and closet OCD sufferer who, recently separated from hi.... -
Undersea Prison - Duncan Falconer
SUMMARY: After the British military lose an officer to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, a desperate race begins to find his killers. Little do the assailants know that the precio... -
Ulysses S. Grant - Michael Korda
From Publishers WeeklyThis little book will inevitably be compared with Josiah Bunting's similarly short biography of one of the world's greatest military figures. The marriage of ... -
U is for Undertow - Sue Grafton
SUMMARY: This title is from Diamond Dagger winner Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone's latest compelling case. In 1960s Santa Teresa, California, a child is kidnapped and never returned... -
Two for the Dough - Janet Evanovich
SUMMARY: It's Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel "One for the Mon... -
Two Lives - William Trevor
Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred.... -
Twitter Wit_ Brilliance in 140 - Nick Douglas
SUMMARY: New York Magazine proclaims, "Twitter is the hot web company right now...the Next Big Thing;" the New York Times calls it "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Inte...