EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A near-future techno-thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Diane Duane. ** It's the first quarter of the twenty-first century, and "massively multip...
Amazon.com ReviewWelcome back to the Trojan War gone round the bend. Hector and Achilles have joined forces against the Olympic Gods. Back on a future Earth, assorted creatures fro...
Amazon.com ReviewTobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school ....
SUMMARY: When Phoebe’s mom returns from Greece with a new husband and plans to move to an island in the Aegean Sea, Phoebe’s well-plotted senior year becomes ancient history. Now, ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn Rice's slim second Songs of the Seraphim novel (after Angel Time), the angel Malchiah whisks ex-contract killer Toby O'Dare back to 16th-century Rome, wher...
SUMMARY: Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of c...
When San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy gets a call saying his wife never picked the kids up from school, heís worried. Frannieís a great mother. Turns out thereís a good explanat...
From Publishers WeeklyReturning from 2004's Slow Kill, stoic Sante Fe police chief Kevin Kerney receives an unexpected visit from Johnny Jordan, a childhood friend and now ca...
From Publishers WeeklyThis suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American sin...
SUMMARY: 'The Phoenix Project' by Jacquelyn Frank. Held captive, Amara is subjected to bizarre experiments that test the limits of her sanity. But nothing prepares her for being lo...