From the "literary master for a generation" ("The London""Observer") comes a fiercely com-""pelling and current novel set in Hamburg that plays to all of le Carre's trademark strengths-- Germany, rival intelligence operations, and sympathetic protagonists who discover a taste for moral integrity.A h[...]

When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncle's spooky house ...Why does her uncle, Calvin Re[...]

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies. The National Park Service, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S.[...]

On 12 CD's. Vincent Marzello reads John Grisham's gripping tale of a terrible miscarriage of justice, based on a true story. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada, Oklahoma, called Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered. For five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons tha[...]

Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright--the acclaimed bestselling novel about spies in "The War on Terror."
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount o[...]

"Why Men Run From Relationships," "Changes" magazine "The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man" is a record of one man's journey to find his "true masculinity" and his way out of co-dependent and addictive relationships. It's a book for all men and women who grew up in dysfunctional families and are [...]

An extraordinary, real-life tale of international intrigue and corruption, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" reveals the hidden mechanics of imperial control behind such major international events as the fall of the Shah, the death of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and the invasions of Panama[...]

In a heart-rending story set in 1919 Ireland, the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough marks its decline through its dwindling guest list and the World War I veteran who returns to his homeland to claim a family legacy. Reprint.[...]

This is the vivid, unconventional story of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist who was either a great genius or a colossal crackpot . . . or a bit of both.
Kircher's interests knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine, he offered up inventi[...]