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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
SUMMARY: Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flow... -
Settling Accounts_ The Grapple - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe compelling third volume (after Drive to the East) in Turtledove's third alternate history of WWII series opens with the Confederacy reeling after the los.... -
Settling Accounts_ In at the De - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyAlternate history master Turtledove brings his 10-book saga of a Confederate Civil War victory to a satisfying if predictable conclusion. Outfought by the Uni... -
Settling Accounts_ Drive to the - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyIn Turtledove's engrossing second book in the alternate history master's Settling Accounts trilogy (after 2004's Return Engagement), Confederate forces, in a.... -
Settling Accounts _ Return Enga - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyIn this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (_American Empire_) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with distur... -
Salvation City - Sigrid Nunez
FromThings come undone with shocking rapidity when a flu pandemic ravages America. Cole, the son of liberal atheists and a smart, self-contained boy who loves to draw and counts ex... -
Relentless Forward Progress_ A - Bryon Powell; Eric Grossman
Although Dean Karnazes' "Ultramarathon Man" and Neal Jamison's "Running Through the Wall" provide runners with engrossing narrative accounts of the experience of running beyond 26.... -
Perfect Fit - Brenda Jackson
Sage Dunbar is dealt a shattering double blow when she discovers that her fiance has depleted her bank accounts and her father has been having an affair. Reeling with shock, she... -
My Week with Marilyn - Colin Clark
This remarkable true story recounts the magical seven days during which Hollywood's biggest star – the newly married Marilyn Monroe – escaped a difficult movie shoot and the pressu... -
My Horizontal Life_ A Collectio - Chelsea Handler
**In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and of...