Katerina Diamond ‘A terrific story, originally told. All hail the new Queen of Crime!’ HEAT‘A web of a plot that twists and turns and keeps the reader on the edge...

Brad Parks Former Broadway star Tommy Jump isn't getting the roles he once did; as his final run as Sancho Ponza draws to a close, Tommy is getting ready to...

Ted Hughes What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in...

David Foster Wallace In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show...

Mark Keating An injured French officer struggles along a desolate stretch of West African coastline, desperate to hold on to his secret. Alas for him, his tale is soon ended,...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates The Barnes & Noble ReviewEver make a stupid comment or joke, or say something you obviously didn't mean? Of course you have -- we all have. Was it...

Jose Eduardo Agualusa This unusual novel about the landscape of memory and its inconsistencies follows Felix Ventura as he trades in a curious commodity—he sells people different pasts. He can...

Bobbi Brown In this manual, Bobbi Brown strikes conventional thinking about beauty. To her way of thinking , there is no one "perfect" beauty standard but countless expressions of personalized...

Hill Lineback You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from subordinates, your supervisor, peers, and customers.You're not alone. As...

Leonard Jay Greenspoon Yiddish language and literature played a major role in the lives of millions of Eastern European Jews, both in their homelands and in the centers to which...

Eowyn Ivey Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey's second novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure,...

Noreena Hertz From an economist hailed as "one of the world's leading thinkers" (The Observer), an eye-opening exploration of the most urgent social issue of our time."Noreena Hertz delivers a...