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The amazing adventures of Kaval - Michael Chabon
SUMMARY: This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist... -
The alcoholics - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, ad... -
The Zahir - Paulo Coelho
Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of ... -
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare persona... -
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty intr... -
The World of Karl Pilkington - Karl Pilkington; Ricky Gervais;
In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl Pilkington is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of The Office and Extras,... -
The World According to Bertie - Alexander Hanchett Smith
From Publishers WeeklySmith delivers yet another delightful installment to his Scotland Street series. This time out, he focuses mostly on the irrepressible Bertie Pollock, a preco... -
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in ... -
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky - Jennifer Steil
"I had no idea how to find my way around this medieval city. It was getting dark. I was tired. I didn't speak Arabic. I was a little frightened. But hadn't I battled scor... -
The Wishsong of Shannara - Terry Brooks
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, sent its ghastly Mord Wra...