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An Area of Darkness - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness_ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perce... -
American Colossus_ The Triumph - H. W. Brands
From Publishers WeeklyIn this timely study, University of Texas historian Brands (Traitor to His Class) describes the rise of the great corporate capitalists after the Civil War. J... -
Alice I Have Been_ A Novel - Melanie Benjamin
SUMMARY: Few works of literature are as universally beloved as" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright s... -
African Laughter - Doris May Lessing
'African Laughter' is a portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old South... -
Acts of Malice - Perri O'Shaughnessy
Amazon.com ReviewNobody in the exploding field of legal thrillers catches the day-to-day life of a working lawyer better than the O'Shaughnessy sisters--lawyer Pamela and writer Ma... -
A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks
SUMMARY: From the author of the bestselling "Birdsong" comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit ... -
A Wedding in December_ A Novel - Anita Shreve
From Publishers WeeklyA_Big Chill_–like group reunites for a 40-something wedding in this melancholy story of missed opportunities, lingering regrets and imagined alternatives by S... -
A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
SUMMARY: There was a time when the world was sweeter....when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats.... Every April, when the wind smells of b... -
A Tinfoil Sky - Cyndi Sand-Eveland
Product DescriptionMel and her mother, Cecily, know what it’s like to live rough, whether it’s on the streets or in the apartment of an abusive man.When Cecily announces that they’... -
A River in the Sky - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY: 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire...