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Cat's cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protago... -
Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
It is rare and splendid event when an author is elevated from the underground into the international literary establishment. In the case of England's best-known and best-loved mode... -
Carnivorous Nights_ On the Trai - Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Cr
Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari... -
Cairo Modern - Naguib Mahfouz; William M. Huti
The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each r... -
Cain His Brother - Anne Perry
"A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction."--Chicago Sun-TimesIn his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentl... -
Cain - Jose Saramago; Margaret Jull Co
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In his final slim novel, the late José Saramago gives a cheeky modernist update to a timeworn biblical tale.... -
Bungalow 2 - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyIn Steel's latest, 42-year-old Tanya Harris loves her life as a mother of three, wife of a dashing San Francisco lawyer and moderately successful writer of sh... -
Boswell_ A Modern Comedy - Stanley Elkin
Elkin's striking debut: The story of one man's comic attempts at immortality James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses frien... -
Blood and Rage_ A Cultural Hist - Michael Burleigh
From Publishers WeeklyBurleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this p... -
Black Hawk Down_ A Story of Mod - Mark Bowden
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) De...