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Sole Survivor - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY: A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los An... -
Sanshiro - Natsume Soseki; Haruki Murakami
Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the consta... -
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Jasper Fforde
From Publishers WeeklyWith the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Depart... -
Mistress of the Night - Don Bassingthwaite; Dave Gross
Product DescriptionYthnel is a young priestess of Loviatar who leaves her temple in Bezantur for the first time to become a governess in Luthcheq across the sea. Accused of witchcr... -
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The poet in Whitman developed late and slowly while his early writings came only from the surface of his mind. But when he was scarcely in his teens he was publis... -
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
SUMMARY: Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt's house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr. Rochester. She loves him and wants t... -
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
EDITORIAL REVIEW: She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of ... -
George Mills - Stanley Elkin
Review"A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter." -- New York Times "A true artist . . . Stanley Elkin never lets us down. . . . I read... -
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runawa... -
Doctor Who_ Endgame - Terrance Dicks
Product DescriptionFeliks, an acquaintance of the Doctor's, is killed in an accident. He leaves the Doctor a coded message. With difficulty, the Doctor decodes the message and find...