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The Double Comfort Safari Club - Alexander McCall Smith
SUMMARY: Priase for The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency series: "Wise and lovely." --"USA Today" "Mma Ramotswe's observations not only inevitably expose her suspects, but also ... -
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 Debacle - Emile Zola
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mer... -
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
SUMMARY:Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part... -
The Culture Code_ An Ingenious - Clotaire Rapaille
From Publishers WeeklyFrench-born marketing consultant and psychoanalyst Rapaille takes a truism—different cultures are, well, different—and expands it by explaining how a nation's... -
The Crow Road - Iain Banks
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded.I sat in the crematorium, listening... -
The Country of the Blind and Ot - Herbert George Wells; Neil Gaim
The final installment in Penguin Classics's landmark H. G. Wells seriesAlthough best known for his novels, it was in his early short fiction that H. G. Wells first explored ... -
The Confession of Brother Halui - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: On his deathbed, Brother Haluin confesses to a shocking act in his past--and then recovers. To atone, Haluin determines to make a journey of expiation with Brothe... -
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
INTRODUCTION BY CHELSEA CAIN:: This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, viol... -
The Case for God - Karen Armstrong
SUMMARY: Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it calle...