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The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ... -
The Egyptologist - Arthur Phillips
Beginning on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, this is the story of an archaeologist who becomes obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king, exploring themes of class, ... -
The Edinburgh Dead - Brian Ruckley
Product DescriptionEdinburgh 1827. In the starkly-lit operating theatres of the city, grisly experiments are being carried out on corpses in the name of medical science. But elsewh... -
The Edge - Dick Francis
From Publishers WeeklyThe British author's 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses a... -
The Drop - Michael Connelly
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, December 2011: With his retirement looming, LAPD's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch takes on two seemingly unrelated cases. The fi... -
The Door to December - Dean Koontz
One of Koontz's best-loved novels of psychological suspense, The Door to December takes readers into the darkest recesses of the human mind-and into the tempest of a father's ob... -
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. le Guin
PerfectBound e-book extra: A Study Guide to The Dispossessed by Paul Brians.Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. he will seek answers, question the unquestionable... -
The Discoverers - Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Examines the human quest for knowledge and discoveries as it discusses such men as Galileo, Adam Smith, Columbus, Marx, Napoleon, Magellan, Faraday, Freud, Marco Polo, and St. Augu... -
The Disappointment Artist - Jonathan Lethem
In a volume he describes as "a series of covert and no-so-covert autobiographical pieces," Jonathan Lethem explores the nature of cultural obsession—in his case, with examples as d... -
The Demon and the City - Liz Williams
From Publishers WeeklyThe second Detective Inspector Chen novel (after 2005's Snake Agent) traverses a wildly imaginative landscape based on Chinese mythology, with humans mi...