Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2012 which were originally published in American periodicals.

SUMMARY: Set in late fourteenth century England, Vanora Bennett's rich, dramatic new novel presents an England uncannily like our own.The country is in turmoil, The King is in debt to the City, and the old order had broken down - a time of opportunity indeed, for those who can seize the moment.The k

Retired police chief Katherine Sullivan moved away from Edina, Minnesota to feed her artistic soul in New Mexico. But when she receives an urgent call, her serenity is shattered. Nathan Walker, her best friend and former colleague from her days on the police force, is missing and his crew of securit

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scor

"If you love folklore you will find Betson's stories riveting. Author Patrick Betson is a storyteller make no mistake about it." Tahoe Daily Tribune/Tahoe World. "Legends, tall tales and true accounts blend into a delightful read in Patrick Betson's "The Ghosts of Lake Tahoe: The Stuff of Legends."

I was searching for the box of Christmas decorations in the garage when I stumbled upon the old, dusty glass jar. The dusty glass jar filled with folded paper slips that my wife and I wrote out years ago, long before our wedding bells chimed. Naughty scrawled ideas, like a filthy little tombola…

This definitive survey offers rare glimpses of a dying art. Banned for decades by colonial authorities, the ancient tattoo rituals were vanishing at the time of this 1921 survey. Thirty-eight plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete, intimate, and au

Years after painter Elaine Risley flees Toronto for Vancouver, she returns to search for long-missing parts of her life and pursue the elusive Cordelia, her best friend and sometimes enemy.

In a world where enhanced animals have altered the ecology beyond repair, the great protective enclaves are beginning to be built, but there will be no refuge there for altered humans, nor for normal humans trying to protect their enhanced pets. A woman with feline genes, bred for sex slavery. A man

SUMMARY: When Running with the Demon appeared two years ago, it was recognized at once as a masterpiece in the making, a bold departure that promised to revitalize contemporary urban fantasy and showcase Terry Brooks's vast storytelling gifts as never before. The second book of the series, A Knigh

This 100 page prequel novella to Mary Kay Andrews's bestselling novel *Beach Town* is sure to delight fans and new readers alike. Greer Hennessy is a movie location scout whose latest project has literally gone up in flames. After an avocado field accidentally catches fire on the set of her new mov

In quest'opera apocalittica Vollmann ci immerge nell'incubo delle due grandi dittature totalitarie del XX secolo in guerra tra loro: l'Unione Sovietica e la Germania nazista. Nel libro vengono poste a confronto storie personali segnate dalle più terribili decisioni che individui posti in condizioni

### Likable characters and an intriguing premise almost make up for gaping holes in the plot of Ambrose's debut romantic thriller. Eleanor Coggins breaks into the Westfield mansion, hoping to find evidence implicating Banner Westfield in the death of his wife, Eleanor's best friend. Instead she

"There are no angels in Baton Noir. Only devils." Jude Lomax scrapes a living playing the trumpet on the neon streets of Baton Noir. Then she is invited to play at the funeral of the infamous cajou queen, Ivory Monette. Passing through the cemetery gates, Jude finds herself possessed by the murdered