Adventure
The Splendor of Silence
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India, 1942. American Sam Hawthorne, recovering from a wound received in Burma, turns up in the remote Indian state of Rudrakot. He asks permission ...Read Review
Castro’s Curveball
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In 1947, career minor leaguer Billy Bryan is in Cuba playing winter ball, chasing a dream of making it to the majors that is ...Read Review
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy
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Rites of Passage, the first novel of this trilogy, won the Booker Prize; Golding is also a Nobel laureate, a master of language, ...Read Review
Dawn of Empire
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On the eastern bank of the Tigris five thousand years ago, Orak grew into a rich and powerful village, settled by merchants, traders ...Read Review
Paper Woman
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Set during the American Revolution, Paper Woman follows Sophie Barton’s attempts to learn the truth behind the murders of her rebel father ...Read Review
Jack Absolute
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“Rollicking” is not a word I usually use, but it perfectly describes C.C. Humphreys’ new novel, Jack Absolute. The title character claims ...Read Review
The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters
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The power to absorb the intimacy of our secret selves and thereby manipulate the mind in a ruthless quest for world dominion is ...Read Review
Gary Jennings’ Aztec Revenge
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Gleason and Podrug continue the late Gary Jennings’ popular Aztec series, bringing it up to the early 19th century, the Peninsular War in ...Read Review
It Wakes In Me
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In what is now west-central Florida in prehistoric times, Sora, the leader of Black Falcon Nation, is suspected of multiple murders, including that ...Read Review
The Queen of the Night
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Rome is horrified by a series of violent abductions in which the sons and daughters of the wealthiest Roman families are imprisoned and ...Read Review