Homer & Langley : a Novel
The Washington Post – Michael Dirda ?as with his much admired novels The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March, Doctorow again creatively reconfigures and amplifies the historical record?There's a briskness to Homer & Langley that never flags, and its solitary protagonists?two lost souls?possess a half-comical, half-nightmarish fascination. They seem, at once, symbols […]
The Last Song
Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and […]
The Coral Thief
Library Journal: In 1815 on his way to Paris, young medical student Daniel Conner is robbed of his letters of introduction and his rare coral samples by a mysterious woman. Thus begins his frantic search for his belongings and the thief in postrevolutionary Paris. To restore his name and appointment at the famous Jardin des […]
The Lost Symbol : a Novel
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: Within this book's hermetically sealed universe, characters' motivations don't really have to make sense; they just have to generate the nonstop momentum that makes The Lost Symbol impossible to put down?The Lost Symbol manages to take a twisting, turning route through many such aspects of the occult even […]