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The Feng Shui Detective's Caseb - Nury Vittachi
SUMMARY:A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he's not a detective, he's a fe... -
The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: With a timeless writing style that invokes thoughts of children’s fantasy classics such as Philip Pullman... -
The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips
Beginning on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, this is the story of an archaeologist who becomes obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king, exploring themes of class, ... -
The Disappointment Artist - Jonathan Lethem
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as d... -
The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett; James Ellroy
The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious ... -
The Curse of Deadman's Forest - Victoria Laurie
SUMMARY: The Curse of Deadman's Forest is the second book in the Oracles of Delphi Keep—a series with all the timeless charm of classics like the Chronicles of Narnia and all the a... -
The Cocaine Chronicles - Gary Phillips; Jervey Tervalon
From Publishers WeeklyThere are some strong entries in this depressing all-original anthology of 17 stories involving the always powerful, often destructive, effects of cocaine use... -
The Client - John Grisham
Amazon.com ReviewMark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, ... -
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand--until the freighter he and his mo... -
The Ayn Rand reader - Ayn Rand; Gary Hull; Leonard Pe
SUMMARY: The Fountainhead, which became one of the most influential and widely read philosophical novels of the twentieth century, made Ayn Rand famous. An impassioned proponent of...