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The Brief Wondrous Life of Osca - Junot Diaz
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R... -
Tao Te Ching - Stephen Mitchell
Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living, and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching looks at... -
Sum - David Eagleman
A dazzling work of fiction from a scientist who has shaped his considerable knowledge into equally considerable art: brief vignettes that present a stunning array of possible world... -
Snobbery With Violence - M. C. Beaton
SUMMARY: After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summers_ debut season in London society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose_s father... -
Malice in London - Graham Thomas
From Publishers WeeklyA lone woman is walking through the dense fog on the banks of the Thames, searching for her lost dog, when she spies an arm briefly thrust out of the murky wa... -
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it... -
Heidegger's Glasses_ A Novel - Thaisa Frank
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker ... -
Harriet - Jilly Cooper
SUMMARY: Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, HArriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford's leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving... -
Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
Amazon.com ReviewMore of a mystery than a horror novel, Dolores Claiborne contains only the briefest glances at the supernatural. The novel presents Stephen King as a writer ... -
Cupid's Dart - David Nobbs
SUMMARY: The story begins with a not-so-brief encounter on a train between 58-year-old philosophy lecturer Alan, and Ange a twenty-something darts groupie. Alan learns to live for ...