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The Red Garden - Alice Hoffman
From Publishers WeeklyHoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of th... -
The Ranch - Danielle Steel
SUMMARY: In her 39th best-selling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life the story of three women, old roommates from college, who come together after twenty years, one summer at The... -
The Quiet Room - Lori Schiller; Amanda Bennett
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the stree... -
The Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri; Archibald T. M
Review"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio... -
The Proustian Quest - William C. Carter; Jeffrey Lang
Product Description"An ambitious study, the fruit of sustained work over many years. Professor Carter's book deploys a stunning knowledge of Proust and places Carter among the firs... -
The Perfect Murder - Peter James
Product DescriptionVictor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years, but each barely recognises the person they wake up with every morning. Victor is so fe... -
The Pearl - John Steinbeck; Linda Wagner-Ma
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The Next Decade_ What the World - George Friedman
From Publishers WeeklyWhereas Friedman's last book, The Next 100 Years, focused on "the impersonal forces that shape history in the long run," now the geopolitical intelligence exp... -
The Narrative of Sojourner Trut - Sojourner Truth
SUMMARY: The subject of this biography- SOJOURNER TRUTH- as she now calls herself-but whose name originally was Isabella-was born- as near as she can now calculate between the year... -
The Most Dangerous Thing - Laura Lippman
Amazon.com ReviewProduct DescriptionSome secrets can’t be kept... Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances change...