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The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeksA New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing."... -
The Client - John Grisham
Amazon.com ReviewMark Sway, age 11 but years wiser thanks to a drunken dad who abused his mom, is out in the woods behind his Memphis trailer park teaching his kid brother, Ricky, ... -
The Children of Men - P. D. James
SUMMARY: Told with P. D. James’s trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no futur... -
The Burglar in the Closet - Lawrence Block
Review Secrecy and a deft touch are the hallmarks of every successful burglar. Or so thinks Bernie Rhodenbarr before he gets a shocking proposal from his dentist. Sitting back in t... -
The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, *The Broom of the System* stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the c... -
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
SUMMARY: It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. ... -
The Bone House - Brian Freeman
From Publishers WeeklyAt the start of this solid stand-alone from Freeman (Immoral and three other titles in his Duluth, Minn., crime series), former high school teacher Mark Bradl... -
The Big Black Mark - A. Bertram Chandler; Bertram A
SUMMARY:A mutiny aboard the Discovery ends John Grimes' military career with the Galactic Federation -
The Best American Crime Writing - Mark Bowden
The Best American Crime Writing 2006 -
The Belly of Paris - Emile Zola; Mark Kurlansky
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga,The Belly of Parisis the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Retur...