The first in a new series by Agatha Award winner Jeanne M. Dams features spunky Swedish-American immigrant Hilda Johansson. When Hilda discovers the body of a pious neighbor woman on the edge of the estate where she lives and works as a domestic, she fights a corrupt police force, a strict, class-conscious butler, and her own religious prejudices to catch the killer.

Mark Z. Danielewski, famous for his labyrinthine HOUSE OF LEAVES, takes the formal elements of fiction to dizzying new heights in ONLY REVOLUTIONS. The novel reads in both directions, with two narrators telling the story in free verse--the reader must flip the book, turn it upside down, and read from both ends. It's a wild, somewhat annoying, conceit, but the overall effect of the converging stories is fiendishly fun. Sam and Hailey, the teenage protagonists, embark on a cross-country (and cross-time) journey filled with crime and outlandish characters. Danielewski's super postmodern allegorical romp through America is so all-encompassing and expansive in nature that it resembles a crash course between HOUSE OF LEAVES and LEAVES OF GRASS--a true ode to the depths and reaches of American life.

Mark Z. Danielewski, famous for his labyrinthine HOUSE OF LEAVES, takes the formal elements of fiction to dizzying new heights in ONLY REVOLUTIONS. The novel reads in both directions, with two narrators telling the story in free verse--the reader must flip the book, turn it upside down, and read from both ends. It's a wild, somewhat annoying, conceit, but the overall effect of the converging stories is fiendishly fun. Sam and Hailey, the teenage protagonists, embark on a cross-country (and cross-time) journey filled with crime and outlandish characters. Danielewski's super postmodern allegorical romp through America is so all-encompassing and expansive in nature that it resembles a crash course between HOUSE OF LEAVES and LEAVES OF GRASS--a true ode to the depths and reaches of American life.

Mark Z. Danielewski, famous for his labyrinthine HOUSE OF LEAVES, takes the formal elements of fiction to dizzying new heights in ONLY REVOLUTIONS. The novel reads in both directions, with two narrators telling the story in free verse--the reader must flip the book, turn it upside down, and read from both ends. It's a wild, somewhat annoying, conceit, but the overall effect of the converging stories is fiendishly fun. Sam and Hailey, the teenage protagonists, embark on a cross-country (and cross-time) journey filled with crime and outlandish characters. Danielewski's super postmodern allegorical romp through America is so all-encompassing and expansive in nature that it resembles a crash course between HOUSE OF LEAVES and LEAVES OF GRASS--a true ode to the depths and reaches of American life.

At the end of the 21st century, virtual reality has become so prevalent that almost everyone has acquiesced to living their lives completely within the "Bin." Young Nemo Thorne is averse to giving himself over to the Bin, but he does enter occasionally to visit his relatives. On his latest visit, Nemo meets singer Justine Ingham, to whom he feels a great attraction. But it turns out that she has been constructed from other personalities to lure Nemo into the Bin, permanently. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

Gourmet chef and sometimes amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz teams up with her professional mentor to cater a fashion photo shoot at a 19th-century mountain cabin. As Goldy stirs up mouth-watering delights for a group of rail-thin models and uppity fashion photographers, someone else, it appears, is preparing a recipe for trouble. Soon, Goldy finds herself on a desperate search for four missing antique cookbooks and a brutal killer.

Sleuthing chef Goldy Schulz investigates a murder that takes place while she is preparing a traditional British feast for a millionaire.

Gourmet chef and amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz investigates the death of an ex-boyfriend in her ninth mystery adventure.

Sleuth/caterer Goldy Bear Schulz's own goose might be cooked if she can't clear her name in the 12th entry of a tasty mystery series. Goldy's despicable ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman, is let out of prison early when the governor commutes his sentence for assault. Not long afterward, Goldy is knocked unconscious and her new kitchen trashed by a masked assailant. Her ex seems a likely culprit, but then someone shoots him and frames Goldy for his murder. The back of the book contains several of Goldy's recipes.

Sleuthing foodie Goldy Shulz tries to figure out who is murdering the members of the Westside Mall's "Elite Shoppers" club.

An account of a young woman's solo odyssey through the deserts of Australia. Accompanied only by her dog and four camels, Robyn Davidson endured 130-degree heat, swollen rivers, poisonous snakes, and lecherous Australian men. A cult classic.

This financial thriller features Eva Cunningham, an undercover agent for British Intelligence, who uses a diamond mine in Vietnam--with herself as bait--to trap a respectable international businessman suspected of assisting China's illegal trade in nuclear weapons.