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Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston; Edwidge Dan
E-BOOK EXTRA: Janie's Great Journey: A Reading Group Guide; PLUS: The Comphrehensive Edition: This special e-book is the only edition to include all three essays by Edwidge Dantica... -
The system of the world - Neal Stephenson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Wa... -
The serpent in the garden_ a no - Janet Gleeson
SUMMARY: She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he had not seen for twenty years. The stones were just as he recalled them: a dozen or more,... -
The rose rent_ the thirteenth c - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: Judith Perle, a young widow who had greatly loved her husband, has conveyed one of her properties to the Abbey of Shrewsbury in return for the annual rent of one white ros... -
The orchard keeper - Cormac McCarthy
SUMMARY: An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in t... -
The moon is down - John Steinbeck
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publish... -
The log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The help - Kathryn Stockett
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a d... -
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 forever war - Dexter Filkins
SUMMARY: From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Thro...