Long out of print, this 150th anniversary edition includes David J. Meltzer's lively introduction, which describes the controversies surrounding the book’s original publication, from a bitter, decades-long feud between Squier and Davis to ...
As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British ...
Lovesey, Peter Upon a Dark Night / Peter Lovesey. p. cm. ISBN 9781569473931 eISBN 9781569478141 1. Diamond, Peter (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—England—BathFiction. 3. Bath (England) —Fiction.
A modern-day take on Great Expectations set in the Australian Outback.
“Part murder mystery and part mind-bending time-travel story.
On a visit to her ailing brother in London, Jane Austen crosses paths with the chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, who invites her to tour the Prince's fabulous home.
A zombie-obsessed teenager has his own way of navigating high school and family dysfunction in this “crazy, wicked, knockout of a book” (Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the Rain).
In Johannesburg, prosperous white people live in gated communities - and when they exit their cars to open the gates, carjackings are common.
Ah Por's words pounded in his head as he pulled the rapist's file. Height and weight, the physical description was a match. Small ears and fire. Wielded knife with left hand. The burning body. Jack knew the DNA from the body and the ...
Cyan is nicknamed "Night" because she is so dark. Bottom Rock is her village, just five miles from Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados. Her father is known as "Steel"; he...
In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of a few days?
Paperback edition found under the title Bitter Wash Road. From the Hardcover edition.
These letters are drawn from rare illuminated books and manuscripts of science and art of the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. Accompanying each letter is the story of its rare book source, its artist, and its historical context.
Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible.
Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their ...
In Paris, seventeen-year-old Khayyam, a part-Indian, part-French Muslim American, is at a crossroads when a chance encounter plunges her into research about Leila, a girl much like Khayyam who inspired Eugène Delacroix.
thirteen days, I had not been inside any American bank, I was in town to edit an international magazine, I had never stolen anything of value from anybody, much less robbed a bank, I was on my way to see a professor at UMass to talk ...
When Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran, Detective-Adjutant Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate.
In his twisty, heartbreaking, profoundly moving New York Times bestselling debut, Adam Silvera brings to life a charged, dangerous near-future summer in the Bronx.
When eighteen-year-old Sydney Holman announces that she has decided to attend NYU, her overprotective mum is devastated.