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The Executioner's Song - Norman Mailer
SUMMARY:Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer PrizeIn what is arguably his greatest book, America's most heroically ambitious writer followsthe short, blighted career of Gary Gilmore,... -
The Day We Found the Universe - Marcia Bartusiak
Book Description From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the ... -
The Dark Half - Stephen King; Linesch
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to wr... -
The Color of Law_ A Novel - Mark Gimenez
SUMMARY:Mark Gimenez grew up in Galveston County, Texas. Once a partner at a major Dallas firm, Gimenez gave it up in order to start his own practice and to write. He lives ... -
The Collected Stories - William Trevor
William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and a... -
The Coffins of Little Hope - Timothy Schaffert
Timothy Schaffert has created his most memorable character yet in Essie, an octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reporte... -
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 Burning Skies - David J. Williams
Review_ "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock 'em sock 'em cyber warfare, space comman... -
The Burglar in the Rye - Lawrence Block
Amazon.com ReviewLawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of Burg... -
The Braindead Megaphone - George Saunders
The breakout book from "the funniest writer in America"-not to mention an official Genius-a trade paperback original and his first nonfiction collection ever.George Saunders's firs...