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Contact - Carl Sagan
Amazon.com ReviewIt is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of... -
Confession of a Buddhist Atheis - Stephen Batchelor
From Publishers WeeklyBatchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs (1997) described a secular approach to the Eastern philosophy stripped of doctrines such as karma and rebirth; how a you.... -
City of Djinns_ A Year in Delhi - William Dalrymple
From Library JournalDelhi has a richly layered past, and Dalrymple (In Xanadu, McKay, 1990) deftly peels away each layer to reveal how the city came to be what it is today. Djinns ... -
City of Bones - Michael Connelly
Amazon.com ReviewSince his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning __, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined In City of Bones, Connelly's eighth Bosch title,... -
Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat
Amazon.com ReviewOprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on ... -
Bravo two zero - Andy McNab
SUMMARY: In January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a secret mission that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Under the command of Seargent Andy M... -
Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
From Publishers WeeklyRed Mars, the kickoff to Robinson's epic Mars trilogy, won the Nebula for best SF novel of 1992; its follow-up, Green Mars, won the parallel Hugo for 1994. Th... -
Blood Canticle - Anne Rice
From Publishers WeeklyFor her 25th fan-pleasing outing, Rice reunites some of her most popular creations and, for the first time since Memnoch the Devil (1995), lets the Vampire Le... -
Belly Laughs_ The Naked Truth A - Jenny McCarthy
From Publishers WeeklyMcCarthy, 1994 Playmate of the Year, actress (Scream 3; Baywatch; etc.) and former host of MTV's Singled Out, gave birth to her first child... -
Bad Land - Jonathan Raban
In 1993 Jonathan Raban entered the Badlands, a place the size of England and the least visited region in all of the United States. Here he came across the ruins of a community and ...