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Marcel Proust_ A Life - Edmund White
Amazon.com ReviewMarcel Proust documented his existence so lavishly--albeit in fictional form--that many of his biographers have functioned as little more than code-breakers, dogge... -
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
At the age of eleven, Li Cunxin was one of the privileged few selected to serve in Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy. Having known bitter ... -
Love and Louis XIV_ The Women i - Antonia Fraser
From Publishers WeeklyProlific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of in... -
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
SUMMARY: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bea... -
L.A. Candy - Lauren Conrad
From School Library JournalGrade 9 Up—After high school, two best friends move to Los Angeles hoping to start "a new and amazing life," but their existence is anything but glamorou... -
Keeping Christmas - B. J. Daniels
CHRISTMAS NEVER MEANT MUCH AT THE BONNER ESTATE...BUT COULD IT BECOME A HOLIDAY TO REMEMBER AT CHANCE WALKER'S MONTANA CABIN? Ten years ago Dixie Bonner was the favorite wild child... -
Kafka Was the Rage_ A Greenwich - Anatole Broyard
From Kirkus ReviewsBrilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, ... -
Just the Sexiest Man Alive - Julie James
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fabulously fun, romantic comedy from a dynamic new talent.** Nothing fazes Taylor Donovan—not in the courtroom and not in her personal life. So when she’s ass... -
Incomplete Nature_ How Mind Eme - Terrence W. Deacon
As physicists work toward completing a theory of the universe and biologists unravel the molecular complexity of life, a glaring incompleteness in this scientific vision becomes ap... -
Immortal Wolf - Bonnie Vanak
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Exiled to a life of extreme loneliness because everyone she touches dies, Emily Burke has every reason to distrust Raphael Robichaux. The immortal werewolf posses...