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Cleaving - Julie Powell
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in 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... -
Chaos and Order_ The Gap Into M - Stephen R. Donaldson
Amazon.com ReviewPunisher is on the run from Billingate Space Station, as well as other predators that follow: UMCP Enforcement Division director Min Donner aboard a crippled ... -
Catalyst_ A Tale of the Barque - Anne McCaffrey; Elizabeth Ann S
SUMMARY: Pilot, navigator, engineer, doctor, scientist—ship's cat? All are essential to the well-staffed space vessel. Since the early days of interstellar travel, when Tuxedo Thom... -
Burglars Can't Be Choosers - Lawrence Block
SUMMARY: Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good... -
Brief Encounters With Che Gueva - Ben Fountain
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding ... -
Brave Girl Eating_ A Family's S - Harriet Brown
SUMMARY: I've never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the bony chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I've come to rec... -
Boswell_ A Modern Comedy - Stanley Elkin
Elkin's striking debut: The story of one man's comic attempts at immortality James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses frien... -
Beyond Band of Brothers - Richard D. Winters; Cole Christ
From Publishers WeeklyIn his well-intentioned but impersonal memoirs, Winters tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO... -
Begin Again_ A Biography of Joh - Kenneth Silverman
From John Cage, whose pieces dazzled and confounded audiences for six decades, hardly seems the easiest of subjects for the biographer, but this is a well-researched, coherent, qui...