Amazon.com ReviewLawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of Burg...
Amazon.com ReviewIf the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the noir classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he's ....
ReviewAcclaim for Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic“Poetic . . . Otsuka combines the tragic power of a Greek chorus with the intimacy of a confession. She conjur...
ReviewKevin Holohan's strange yet disconcertingly recognizable world has echoes of Flann O'Brien's and Monty Python's, but there is rage as well as absurdist comedy. THE BROTHERS' ...
Sorak had known that discovering his past would come at a price, but he had not guessed the pice would be so dear. He learned of his parents, of his slaughtered tribe, of the desti...
Against the passionate sweep of Deverrian history, the powerful wizard Nevyn has lived for centuries, atoning for the sins he committed in his youth. Now, with so much of his work ...
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R...
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest...
Amazon.com ReviewAfter Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."He wasn't aging; he was growi...
SUMMARY: From the ashes of an ancient holy order comes an unholy relic...In the time of the Crusades, the Knights Templars were holy warriors who seemed to be blessed by God himsel...