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The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
From Publishers WeeklyCanadian Galloway (_Ascension_) delivers a tense and haunting novel following four people trying to survive war-torn Sarajevo. After a mortar attack kills 22 ... -
The Beast Within - Emile Zola; Roger Whitehouse
Product DescriptionA superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master ...mile Zola considered The Beast Within-also kno.... -
The Battle of Midway - Craig L. Symonds
Review"[W]holly satisfying . . . a lucid, intensely researched, mildly revisionist account of a significant moment in American military history." --Kirkus Reviews, starred re... -
Shadows - John Saul
From Publishers WeeklyAfter a very slow first half, Saul ( Darkness , The God Project ) picks up the pace and delivers aword? tense, high-tech psychological suspense thriller. Ten-... -
Safe Food_ Bacteria, Biotechnol - Marion Nestle
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants a... -
Pym_ A Novel - Mat Johnson
FromChris Jaynes, professor of African American studies, has been denied tenure for his refusal to sit on the Diversity Committee at his university and for his intense interest in ... -
Orlando - Virginia Woolf; Mark Hussey
From the Back Cover"Undoubtedly Virginia Woolf’s most intense and one of the most singular (novels) of our era."--Jorge Luis BorgesBegun as a "joke," Orlando is Virgi... -
Matterhorn_ A Novel of the Viet - Karl Marlantes
SUMMARY: Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is th... -
Junie B. Jones and the yucky bl - Barbara Park; Denise Brunkus
FromGr. 2^-4. Junie B. Jones is back, as intense, vulnerable, and funny as ever, in this chapter book that's part of the First Stepping Stone Book series. Always, she wants to be t... -
If I Die in a Combat Zone - Tim O'Brien
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to...