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The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare persona... -
The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker
New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep a... -
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Review“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser “[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –_The Su... -
The Quest of the Warrior Sheep - Christopher Russell
A super-funny, super-crazy crime caper with five rare-breed sheep.A silver object falls mysteriously from the sky and lands on Sal, a matronly Southdown ewe who lives happily with ... -
The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Kim EdwardsDear Readers, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter was that rare thing, a true word-of-mouth best seller, and... -
The Illustrated Gormenghast Tri - Mervyn Peake
Review"Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experien... -
The Burglar in the Library - Lawrence Block
SUMMARY: Bookseller and New-Yorker-to-the-bone, Bernie Rhodenbarr rarely ventures out of Manhattan, but he's excited about the romantic getaway he has planned for himself and curre... -
The Bowl of Light - Hank Wesselman
In 1996, a revered Hawaiian elder befriended an American anthropologist, and from their rare and intimate rapport, something miraculous emerged. Through the words and teachings of ... -
Slay Ride - Dick Francis
Review“Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis.” —_San Francisco Chronicle_Product DescriptionA smash hit novel now in trade—from “a rare and magica... -
Shiloh and Other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
Review"One of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to turn up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted ...