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The Rags of Time - Maureen Howard
SUMMARY: The magnificent conclusion of Maureen Howard's ambitious quartet of novels. Maureen Howard is one of America's most esteemed authors, beloved both for the lyricism of her ... -
The Race Beat - Gene Roberts; Hank Klibanoff; R
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi... -
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Amazon.com ReviewBook Description"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new ... -
The Petrified Ants - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per... -
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 Ones That Got Away - Stephen Graham Jones
From Publishers WeeklyThirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones's second collection (after 2005's Bleed into Me... -
The New Weird - Ann VanderMeer; Jeff VanderMeer
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The VanderMeers (_Best American Fantasy_) ably demonstrate the sheer breadth of the New Weird fantasy subgenre in this powerful anthology of s... -
The Murders of Richard III - Elizabeth Peters
From Library JournalA mixture of American and British characters fill this living room style mystery in which a joker's increasingly dangerous pranks parallel the more interesting ... -
The Monday Night Cooking School - Erica Bauermeister
SUMMARY: On Monday nights eight people gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. There's Claire, who can barely remember the last time she went out without her two kids; ... -
The Miernik Dossier - Charles McCarry
Review‘Arguably the finest modern American spy story’— New York Times‘Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue...