This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi...
From Publishers WeeklyFoulds's erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson...
SUMMARY: Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europ...
A murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. When the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne - the New Gazette's correspondent in Vienna - is one of ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Acclaimed historian Alan Brinkley gives us a sharply realized portrait of Henry Luce, arguably the most important publisher of the twentieth century.As the founde...
Product Description"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the firs...
From Publishers WeeklyFrom the author of Leonie and The Rich Shall Inherit comes thiseventful novel of romantic intrigue, briskly plotted and wellresearched, centering on a fabulou...
Product DescriptionDetermined to get married despite parental disapproval, young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are separated just before their wedding by a...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. When the badly mutilated body of John Harald Jonsson—a working-class family man and an expert on the tropical fish known as cichlids—is found....