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Baking Cakes in Kigali - Gaile Parkin
SUMMARY: Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives.... -
Ask The Dust - John Fante
Arturo Bandini is a struggling writer lodging in a seedy LA hotel. While basking in the glory of having had a single short story published in a small magazine, he meets local waitr... -
Any Woman's Blues_ A Novel of O - Erica Jong
From Publishers WeeklyJong ( Fanny ; Serenissima ) has consistently profiled clever and libidinous heroines who engage in series of bold adventures while striving toward self-knowl... -
An Ermine in Czernopol - Gregor von Rezzori
A New York Review Books OriginalSet just after World War I, An Ermine in Czernopol centers on the tragicomic fate of Tildy, an erstwhile officer in the army of the now-defunct Aust... -
An Acquaintance with Darkness - Ann Rinaldi
"Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle is involved in body snatching. Meanwhile, her best friend's family is accused of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, and Emil... -
Amberville - Tim Davys
SUMMARY: What does it mean to be bad? Eric Bear has it all: a successful career, a beautiful wife, a blissful home. He knows he's been lucky; a while back, his life revolved around... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderlan - Lewis Carroll
First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with charming simplicity. ... -
A Touch of Death - Charles Williams
SUMMARY: While searching for $120,000 in stolen money, Lee Scarborough falls in with a ruthless femme fatale whose schemes threaten to destroy his life in this long-out-of-print cl... -
A New Selected Poems - Galway Kinnell
That Silent EveningI will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as they got near the ... -
A Lion Among Men_ Volume Three - Gregory Maguire
SUMMARY: While civil war looms in Oz, Brrr—the Cowardly Lion—surrenders the story of his life to a tetchy oracle named Yackle. Abandoned as a cub, Brrr's path from infancy in the G...