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The royals - Kitty Kelley
Amazon.com ReviewThe killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography, The Royals..... -
The romantic manifesto_ a philo - Ayn Rand
Review''Bernadette Dunne is a good match for Rand's voice, delivering the novelist's passionate convictions with a metered cadence. Dunne's clear conveyance of Rand's essays is imp... -
The ode less travelled_ unlocki - Stephen Fry
SUMMARY: I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small... -
The left hand of God - Paul Hoffman
SUMMARY: 'Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.' The Sanctuary of t... -
The kill-off - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Luane Devore is about to be murdered. It's her favorite topic of conversation. Just who will do the murdering is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps i... -
The housekeeper and the profess - Yoko Ogawa
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Ogawa (_The Diving Pool_) weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow in her exquisite new novel. Narrated by the Housekeeper, the char... -
The holy thief - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: The 19th chronicle of Brother Cadfael. In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey's most cherished possession.... -
The girl in the blue dress - Mary Burchell
Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original mo... -
The devil and Miss Prym - Paulo Coelho
SUMMARY: A new novel of temptation by the author of the international bestsellers "The Alchemist" and "The Zahir," A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecu... -
The demolished man - Alfred Bester
SUMMARY: In the year 2301, the wealthiest man in the universe is determined to commit murder in a world in which telepaths are used to detect possible crimes before they can happen...