"Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America`s wealthy intellectual elite." People John Grisham called Stephen L. Carter`s first…
From the master of suspense, a novel about a very different kind of war-with a very different set of rules.…
"A history teacher rents a video on the recommendation of a friend. Not a great fan of cinema, he watches…
With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man-the 1992 National Book Award winner for nonfiction-this collection completes Paul Monette’s autobiographical writing.…
Evocative of the classic urban tales of Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, and Henry Roth, Paul Hond`s The Baker is an…
A story tracing the creation of Republican Rome presents those who founded an empire, including Marius and Sulla, each determined…
On a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young aristocrats are coming to…
A master assassin. A vendetta years in the making. And a counterterrorism operative who will risk everything -- even treason…
A collection of the virtuoso nonfiction writings by one of our greatest contemporary storytellers. As a novelist, John Fowles needs…
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to…
Working as an interpreter for British Intelligence translating intercepted phone calls, wiretaps, and voice mails, Bruno Salvador, the abandoned son…
The Literate Cat is both photographic essay and literary anthology -- a delight to the eye and the mind. No…
The passionately misguided individuals profiled in this entertaining book form an unforgettable portrait of human imagination run wild.Never has so…
Carol Burnett spent most of her childhood in a Depression-scarred Hollywood neighborhood, where she lived in a single-room apartment with…
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth century New…
Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, "The Grapes…