Having written about land and air in his previous books, acclaimed journalist William Langewiesche writes about the sea, which comprises about one-fifth of the globe, and which remains, on surface and below, in the words of President Kennedy, "the last frontier." Langewiesche recounts tales of modern-day piracy, as well as the natural disasters that wreak havoc with the environment, but the main message is that, in a free enterprise economy, nations have little or no control over that vast expanse and what traverses it. A New York Times Notable Book for 2004.

Being raped as a child by an adult family friend began this memoirist's downward spiral into a life of abuse and emotional turmoil. Set in the "innocent" 1950s, this chilling memoir chronicles the underside of mid-century American culture.

This mystery is the first in a critically acclaimed series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, a man with integrity who uses both a personal moral code and a well-developed sense of cynicism to solve crimes within the corrupt bureaucracy of Venice, Italy. The author is an American who has spent several years living in Venice. The initial case in the series concerns a famous German conductor who is poisoned between acts two and three of LA TRAVIATA. Is the murderer the grieving wife, the opera director, the soprano diva, the diva's lesbian lover...or does the key to this case lie deeper in the conductor's past? DEATH AT LA FENICE won Japan's 1991 Suntory Prize for Best Suspense Novel.