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The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves
SUMMARY: The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Ba... -
The sanctuary sparrow_ the seve - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A paperback edition of a novel featuring Brother Cadfael. A young man pursued by a lynching mob seeks sanctuary at the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury. He is ... -
The royals - Kitty Kelley
Amazon.com ReviewThe killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography, The Royals..... -
The romantic manifesto_ a philo - Ayn Rand
Review''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand's voice, delivering the novelist's passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne's clear conveyance of Rand's essays is imp... -
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
ReviewPraise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character... -
The rip-off - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Is Manuela Aloe a gift from heaven or the girlfriend from hell? From the moment Britt Rainstar starts seeing the curvaceous heiress, he finds himself menaced by vicious do... -
The queen of the damned - Anne Rice
SUMMARY:"A welcome chance to catch up with old friends...Fascinating...When we emerge from its folds, there's good news on the last page: 'The chronicle of the vampires will... -
The nightwatchman's occurrence - V. S. Naipaul
Review?V. S. Naipaul is the world?s writer, a master of language and perception.? ?_The New York Times Book Review_ ?As delightful as anything Naipaul has written.? ?_The New York ... -
The name of the rose - Umberto Eco; William Weaver; Da
SUMMARY: (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A spectacular best seller and now a classic, The Name of the Rose catapulted Umberto Eco, an Italian professor of semiotics turned novelist, ... -
The minutes of the Lazarus Club - Tony Pollard
SUMMARY: 'Some of our ideas are not of the most orthodox nature. They would be frowned upon in anbsp;more traditional scientific environment, perhaps even laughed at.' London, 1857...