The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious ...
From Publishers WeeklyFrench-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truism—different cultures are, well, different—and expands it by explaining how a nation's...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. All most people know of the Crimean War is the charge of the Light Brigade, but this war was both global and modern, insists noted historian a...
From Publishers WeeklyTwo teenage orphans in an anemic fantasy analogue of Victorian London are baffled to find themselves on the run in this overeager effort from British author a...
From Publishers WeeklyReprint of Guterson's 1989 debut, a collection of short stories set mostly in the Pacific Northwest. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. From...
From Publishers WeeklyThe title of Stephenson's vast, splendid and absorbing sequel to Quicksilver (2003) suggests the state of mind that even devoted fans may face on occasi...
SUMMARY: This Wild West adventure just might be the life she was meant to live.The future is clearly mapped out for New York socialite Eugenia “Gennie” Cooper, but she secretly lon...
From Publishers WeeklyGrisham's recent slump continues with another subpar effort whose plot and characters, none of whom are painted in shades of gray, aren't able to support an e...
“One of the best historical series being written today.”—Washington Post“Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre's most complex a...
SUMMARY: China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is captive in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery-haired girl...