Steve Donoghue’s posts from the original Open Letters Monthly Archives.
In pre-war Peking, a young girl is brutally murdered, and an investigation is working against time as Japanese forces converge on the city. But the girl's father wants justice, even if he has to find it himself.
Read MoreA towering landmark of epic fantasy literature is re-issued in a pretty paperback!
Read MoreIn the sequel to Kim Newman's great "Anno Dracula," the evil Count wages war - the First World War, to be exact - with the living!
Read MoreThe closest thing to a genuine 'moose-whisperer' finally gets around to writing the Bible on the species!
Read MoreA sensible young widow tries hard not to fall in love with a dashing young playwright in the latest offering from good old Harlequin Romances!
Read MoreThe first volume in a magisterial new two-volume biography of the greatest Renaissance artist of them all!
Read Morethe third and final reprint-volume of one of the greatest creative runs on Marvel Comics' beloved title "The Avengers"
Read MoreA popular French book about the daring assassination of a Nazi official in 1942 receives an English translation
Read Morea lush new time-travel romance arrives just in time for summer
Read MoreA lively new personality-driven look at the centuries of Roman rule in the British Isles
Read MoreThe posthumous memoir of a beloved Southern writer
Read MoreThe well-spoken son of a lesbian couple becomes a YouTube sensation - and an author.
Read MoreD. Graham Burnett, a young historian of science, produces a fantastic and important encyclopedic history of the long, torturous, often retrograde progress toward "Save the Whales."
Read MoreIn the latest Ian Rutledge mystery, a man walks into Scotland Yard, confesses to a long-ago murder, and shortly afterward is himself found murdered - and the game's afoot!
Read MoreKirk and crew must conduct a rescue mission on a planet that disappears every three years - and is set to vanish mighty soon!
Read MoreA heapingly generous helping of the letters of history's most popular novelist
Read MoreNot-quite-brothers search for their not-quite-mother in this colorful mini-series, now in a hardcover collection
Read MoreThe latest selection of reprints from one of America's most-praised novelists
Read MoreA big, pugnacious account of the post-WWII world
Read MoreHe survived years of dangerous exile, won his crown on the battlefield, and founded one of the most famous dynasties in human history - and yet we still haven't embraced Henry VII. A spirited biography seeks to change that.
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