In a narrative filled with revelations, James Hansen re-creates Neil Armstrong's career in flying, from his seventy-eight combat missions as a naval aviator flying over North Korea to his transatmospheric ... Read More

Both The New York Times and The Guardian Unlimited published their Books of the Year lists this weekend. The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year are ... Read More

Our book giveaway today is sponsored today by the Continuum Studies in Literary Genre, presenting Irish Fiction, An Introduction, a very readable paperback introducing the best and best known of ... Read More

Today is the birthday of Voltaire (1694 — 1778). Born François-Marie Arouet and known for his 1760 novel Candide, Voltaire was one of the major forces behind the European Enlightenment. Voltaire ... Read More

At the 2005 National Book Awards ceremony this evening, William T. Vollman was awarded the award in Fiction for Europe Central, a series of intertwined stories centered around twentieth century ... Read More

Life in Midwest America was far from a pastoral paradise for Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother, David. Their family's move to rural Indiana dropped them into a nightmare from ... Read More

The October 24, 2005 issue of Time Magazine named Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel, Watchmen, as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the ... Read More

David Baldacci is the author of ten previous consecutive New York Times bestsellers and #1 international bestsellers: Absolute Power, Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, Wish You ... Read More

Amazon.com is planning to let it's customers buy books one page at a time According to NPR's Renée Montagne, "For a few cents per page you'll be able to view ... Read More

"Seven hundred fifty pages long, with an additional fifty pages of notes, William T. Vollman's Europe Central is dense with allusions to art, to music, to literature, and to history. ... Read More