Product DescriptionOne hundred years ago, in the beautiful village of Secret Cove, Maine, on the night of the annual August Moon Ball, a shy and lovely servant girl committed an ac...
Amazon.com ReviewFrom its opening pages, Anita Shreve's Sea Glass surrounds the reader in the surprisingly rich feeling of the New Hampshire coast in winter. Vividly evoking the l....
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Archer follows 2010's Warrior with another delightful tale of an intelligent, competent woman sharing adventure and romance with a formidable ...
When did "chemical" become a dirty word? Forty or so years ago, chemistry - which had been recognized as a miracle-making boon to humanity - somehow became associated with warfare,...
SUMMARY: Local politics get nasty when a new mayor is elected and Diane Fallon is replaced with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as she's adjusting to life w...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: After losing everything he owns, forester Will Scarlet embarks on a search for none other than King Raven, whose exploits have already become legendary. After ful...
When America needed a hero, John Paul Jones stood up. During the War of Independence, at the battle of Flamborough Head in 1779, commanding a converted East Indiaman, he tackled a ...
From the pages of Saveur magazine, one of the world's premier food publications, comes a celebration of the enormous range of regional American and international dishes that have s...
SUMMARY:A masterpiece that is breathtaking in its scope, SARUM is an epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapesty weaves a compel...
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the consta...