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In Rough Country_ Essays and Re - Joyce Carol Oates
SUMMARY: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is... -
Genesis - Bernard Beckett
SUMMARY: Go forward in time: it's nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand? In GENESIS, Bernard Beckett, one of our most provocative writers fo... -
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: “Beautiful…provocative, arresting reading.”–USA TodayKURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagin... -
Dark star_ a novel - Alan Furst
From Publishers WeeklyFurst ( Night Soldiers ) will make his mark with this intelligent, provocative and gripping novel. In 1933, Andre Szara, a highly regarded Polish-born foreign... -
Closing Time - Joe Queenan
An affecting memoir from one of America's most provocative humoristsOver the past two decades, Joe Queenan has established himself as a scourge of everything that is h... -
China's Trapped Transition_ The - Minxin Pei
ReviewMinxin Pei is unquestionably one of this country's best informed and most insightful analysts of contemporary Chinese politics. This well-written, provocative book-a soberin... -
Almost Dead_ A Novel - Assaf Gavron
SUMMARY: Politically incorrect, provocative, and steeped in wit and irony, a fast-paced tragicomedy about the perfectly ordinary madness in today's Middle East A thirtysomething Te... -
Adam & Eve - Sena Jeter Naslund
SUMMARY: What happened to Eden? The New York Times bestselling author of Ahab's Wife, Four Spirits, and Abundance returns with an audacious and provocative novel that envisions a w... -
A War Like No Other - Victor Hanson
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the... -
2012_ The War for Souls - Whitley Strieber
From Publishers WeeklyStrieber's epic sequel to 2006's The Grays blends equal parts science fiction thriller, supernatural horror and provocative spiritual speculation. As struggl....