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Year's Best SF 15 - David G. Hartwell; Kathryn Cram
SUMMARY: Who knows what awaits us tomorrow? Much of the most innovative and exhilarating work performed in the boundary-less arena of SF is being done in the short form. This year'... -
Witch Blood - Anya Bast
SUMMARY: Water witch Isabelle Novak must form an uneasy alliance with earth witch Thomas Monahan to hunt and destroy a demon of tremendous power, even though Thomas's very presence... -
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness_ - Toure; Michael Eric Dyson
Review“One of the most acutely observed accounts of what it is like to be young, black and middle-class in America. Toure inventively draws on a range of evidence . . . for a perfo... -
Where the God of Love Hangs Out - Amy Bloom
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom’s astonishing and astute new work of co.... -
When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
“David Sedaris’s ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art,” (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaini... -
Watchers - Dean Koontz
From a top secret government laboratory come two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally vio... -
Waiting - Ha Jin
Amazon.com Review"Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formul... -
Vision in White - Nora Roberts
From Publishers WeeklyThe frighteningly prolific Roberts (see also Black Hills, reviewed on page 42) kicks off a frothy series about four friends who form an all-inclusive wedding.... -
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... -
Two or Three Things I Know for - Dorothy Allison
From Publishers WeeklyAllison's much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, ...