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Becoming Madame Mao - Anchee Min
Amazon.com ReviewMany writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her hi... -
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Amazon.com ReviewFaulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successfu... -
Anything Goes_ A Biography of t - Lucy Moore
FromThe term Roaring Twenties connotates an era of uninhibited excess, characterized by drinking, shameless flappers, jazz, and gangland wars. All of these aspects are covered in t... -
Annie Dunne - Sebastian Barry
Amazon.com ReviewThe central character in Sebastian Barry's novel Annie Dunne is a woman who has been pushed to the margins, a woman whom life has given few chances of happiness a.... -
And if I Die - John Aubrey Anderson
ReviewPraise for Abiding Darkness(Book 2 of 'The Black or White Chronicles')Great detail, intense scenes, and wonderful characters make Abiding Darkness a genuine p... -
Alligator - Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore's Alligator moves with the swiftness of a gator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters in contemporary St. John's, Newfoundland—a... -
Akhenaten_ Dweller in Truth - Najib Mahfuz; Tagreid Abu-Hassa
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of the Cairo trilogy, comes Akhenaten, a fascinating work of fiction about the most infamous pharaoh of ancient Egypt.<... -
Against Nature - Joris-Karl Huysmans; Brendan Ki
Synopsis:Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans is a novel and narrative almost entirely on its principal character, and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of... -
Afterlife - Douglas Clegg
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Stoker-winner Clegg (_The Hour Before Dark_) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents ... -
After the First Death - Lawrence Block
Review"Block's fiction is tense and energetic. His stories unfold smoothly and elegantly, with plenty of detail and rich characterization."-Houston Chronicle Product Descripti...