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The Mammoth Hunters - Jean M. Auel
From Publishers WeeklyThe authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and Th... -
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Wright, a New Yorker writer, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terroris... -
The Glass Key - Dashiell Hammett
Review"Hammett's prose was clean and entirely unique. His characters were as sharply and economically defined as any in American fiction. His gift of invention never tempted him be... -
The Edge - Dick Francis
From Publishers WeeklyThe British author's 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses a... -
The Dick Gibson Show - Stanley Elkin; Chirs Lehmann
From Library Journal"Most of Elkin's prose is alive, with its wealth of detail and specifically American metaphors, and the surreal elements in the narrative are tightly controlled... -
The Death of American Virtue_ C - Ken Gormley
From Publishers WeeklyThis book's readers will quickly think of water. Facts overwhelm you like Niagara. And when you've finished reading about President Clinton and special prosec... -
The Complete Short Stories of E - Evelyn Waugh
SUMMARY:'One of the century's great masters of English prose . . . It is never too late to read or reread Evelyn Waugh' Time In this unique collection of short stories compo... -
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to... -
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves - Sarah Monette
The first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette''s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose ... -
Red Square - Martin Cruz Smith
In the Prosecutor's Office, Renko is looking into the murder of Rosen, a black marketeer. But all the witnesses to the car bomb that caused his death have disappeared, and Renko is...