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The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa; Edith Gross
Amazon.com ReviewMario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics.... -
The Face - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY: Acknowledged as “America’s most popular suspense novelist”(Rolling Stone ) and as one of today’s most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Koontz has earned the devotio... -
The Eleventh Man - Ivan Doig
From Publishers WeeklyIn the solid latest from veteran novelist Doig (_The Whistling Season_), 11 starters of a close-knit Montana college championship football team enlist as the ... -
The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem
What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling w... -
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino; Alexander O. S
FromOne of Japan’s best-selling crime novelists makes his American debut in an atmospheric thriller about a desperate woman, Yasuko, who, craving a peacefull life with her daughter... -
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded.I sat in the crematorium, listening... -
The Civil War, a Narrative_ For - Shelby Foote
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract to write a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear, however, that he had undertaken a long-... -
The Checklist Manifesto_ How to - Atul Gawande
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The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
From Publishers WeeklyCanadian Galloway (_Ascension_) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. After a mortar attack kills 22 ... -
The Caves of Perigord_ A Novel - Martin Walker
From Publishers WeeklyThe discovery of a fragment of a prehistoric cave painting stirs up old passions in modern Europe in this busy, fact-driven fourth novel by commentator and jo...