SUMMARY: Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller wi...
SUMMARY: From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable menone an artist and the other a journalist, w...
SUMMARY:She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution ...
Amazon.com ReviewProduct DescriptionTen-year-old Mary Mae loves to sing hymns with her Granny, go to Sunday School, and learn about trilobites. She has lots of quest...
From Publishers Weekly In the sure-to-please follow-up to Michael Tolliver Lives, the bestselling Tales of the City reboot, it's been 20 years since series anchor Mary Ann Single...
Product DescriptionYears in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps ...
Das Glasperlenspiel, The Glass Bead Game, is the last work & magnum opus of Swiss-German author Hesse. Begun in '31, published in Switzerland in '43, it's mentioned in his citation...
The Dreams in the Witch House The Man of Stone (with Hazel Heald) The Horror in the Museum (with Hazel Heald) Through the Gates of the Silver Key (with E. Hoffmann Price) Winged De...
In 1904 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham, Texas, with one goal—to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Comer. Undercover as a telephone repairman, he uses his days o...