Looking for something good to read? How about a stylish Hollywood caper--Helen Knode's The Ticket Out . or Lawrence Beesley's fresh and forceful eyewitness account of the Titanic's disastrous voyage. There are Authors You Should Know, including Graham Swift, and the unheralded predecessor to Jane Austen, Frances Burney. A wry, witty pre-Stone Diaries offering from Carol Shields. Tony Horwitz following in the footsteps of Captain Cook and Calvin Trillin following his stomach. Absorbing lives: of Beethoven, of LBJ, of the misunderstood Mary Todd Lincoln and the mysterious Czar Alexander I.
Plus the creepy horror stories of Richard Laymon, a reissue of Charles Rosen's enlightening study of music, and--for you and your kids, the big fun of Carl Hiasson's Hoot.
Plus the creepy horror stories of Richard Laymon, a reissue of Charles Rosen's enlightening study of music, and--for you and your kids, the big fun of Carl Hiasson's Hoot.
