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Lady in the Mist - Laurie Alice Eakes
Product DescriptionBy virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets: the names of fathers of illegitimate children, the level of love and harm... -
Killing Castro - Lawrence Block
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Shortly before the Cuban missile crisis, mystery Grand Master Block (_Hit and Run_) donned a pen name to publish this absorbing yarn about fiv... -
Just Like Heaven - Julia Quinn
Product DescriptionHonoria Smythe-Smith is: A) a really bad violinist B) still miffed at being nicknamed "Bug" as a childC) not in love with her older brother's best fr... -
Junie B., first grader_ one-man - Barbara Park
Amazon.com ReviewJunie B. Jones is thrilled. "The whole entire first grade" is planning a kickball tournament, and this feisty first grader daydreams about being the star of Room O... -
Iron Lace - Emilie Richards
From Publishers Weekly Named for the trademark elaborate cast-iron grillwork of many New Orleans homes, Iron Lace is more aptly suited to describe the protagonists' lives in Richar... -
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to de... -
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He ... -
Hostile Intent - Michael Walsh
EDITORIAL REVIEW: It starts with the most horrific act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Only one man can stop them. Code named Devlin, he exists only in the blackest s... -
Harbingers - F. Paul Wilson
SUMMARY: It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio’s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niec... -
Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,...