From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This upbeat account of raising poultry, rabbits, pigs and bees in the middle of a rundown neighborhood in Oakland, Calif., will make listeners...
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—Luce must spend her senior year at reform school after her boyfriend dies in a mysterious fire. She suspects that the dark shadows that have t...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Independent biographer Smith (1996's John Marshall: Definer of a Nation and 2001's Grant) crafts a magisterial biography of...
Review"A spy novel of the highest order." -- _-- _ Baltimore Sun "Follett is a master." -- _Time_ "Heart-stopping, nerve-freezing...Truly suspenseful...Extr...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive ...
Amazon.com ReviewGreat writing carries this unusual story about the Explorer Corps., the branch of the League of Peoples responsible for investigating planets and contacting new li...
The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspensecreator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Herc...
SUMMARY: Allan Carpenter escaped from hell once but remained haunted by what he saw and endured. He has now returned, on a mission to liberate those souls unfairly tortured and con...
SUMMARY:Confronted by the threat of genocide at the hands of the alien Nefrim, humankind's only hope lies in Captain Mikhail Volkov's desperate mission to the Sargasso Sea i...
ReviewHe writes with wit and penetration, and every page of Empire can be read with relaxed pleasure -- Spectator Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated ... In short, h...