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The First Person_ And Other Sto - Ali Smith
SUMMARY: In these energetic, exhilarating stories, Ali Smith portrays a world of everyday dislocation, where people nevertheless find connection, mystery, and love. In "Astute Fier... -
The Fallen Sky - Christopher Cokinos
From The New YorkerIn 1894, fifteen years before his storied expedition to the North Pole, Robert Peary crossed a treacherous expanse of ice in Greenland in search of another prize... -
The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Peter F. Hamilton's startling perspectives on tomorrow's technological and cultural trends span vast tracts of space and time, his stories are as compelling as th... -
The Evolution of Useful Things - Henry Petroski
Amazon.com ReviewThis surprising book may appear to be about the simple things of life--forks, paper clips, zippers--but in fact it is a far-flung historical adventure on the evolu... -
The Everlasting Man (thINKing C - G. K. Chesterton
THIS BOOK NEEDS A preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theo-logical, and does not deal directly with a religious chang... -
The Eternal Husband and Other S - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Larissa Vol
The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time... -
The Eden Hunter_ A Novel - Skip Horack
From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp... -
The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
Amazon.com ReviewLike his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told f... -
The Doll_ The Lost Short Storie - Daphne Du Maurier
Review“This collection of early stories, some originally published in a now out-of-print volume, vividly portrays with humor, candidness, and detail du Maurier’s fascination with t... -
The Disorderly Knights - Dorothy Dunnett
The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles, the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymo...