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Poe - Peter Ackroyd
"Peter Ackroyd's life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) opens with his end, his final days. No one knows what happened between the moment when friends saw him off on the steamboat to Ba... -
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight - Gyles Brandreth
SUMMARY: London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the... -
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich O... -
Oblivion - Michael Jan Friedman
In 1893 a time-traveling Jean-Luc Picard encountered a long-lived alien named Guinan, who was posing as a human to learn Earth's customs. During this "first encounter," Pic... -
O Jerusalem - Laurie R. King
SUMMARY: At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen-year-old apprentice Mary Russell enter British-occupied Palestine under the auspice... -
Northfield - Johnny D. Boggs
SUMMARY: On September 7, 1876, the James-Younger gang attempted to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, with disastrous consequences. In a unique, compelling appro... -
New Orleans Noir - Julie Smith
From Publishers WeeklyThe excellent 12th entry in Akashic's city-specific noir series illustrates the diversity of the chosen locale with 18 previously unpublished short stories fr... -
Mr. Fortune - Sylvia Townsend Warner; Adam Ma
SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER (1893–1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel... -
Mila 18 - Leon Uris
In a bunker underneath 18 Mila Street, a determined band of Warsaw Jews resist Nazi occupiers Italian-American journalist Christopher de Monti finds himself in Nazi-controlled Wars... -
Master of the Crossroads - Madison Smartt Bell
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1995 Madison Smartt Bell published __, earning both critical plaudits and a National Book Award nomination for this fictional account of Haiti's 18th-century sl...