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Saint Maybe - Anne Tyler
Amazon.com ReviewTyler makes things look so easy that she never gets enough credit, yet she portrays everyday Americans with such humor, grace and, ultimately, emotional force that... -
Sabriel - Garth Nix
Amazon.com ReviewAfter receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril ... -
Rules of Deception - Christopher Reich
Amazon.com ReviewLee Child on Rules of Deception _Lee Child has crafted one of literature's most popular anti-heroes in the form of Jack Reacher, the iconic... -
Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam
Amazon.com ReviewInspired by Werner von Braun and his Cape Canaveral team, 14-year-old Homer Hickam decided in 1957 to build his own rockets. They were his ticket out of Coalwood, ... -
River Town_ Two Years on the Ya - Peter Hessler
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Alo... -
Riven Rock - T. Coraghessan Boyle
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him sc... -
Right as Rain_ A Novel - George P. Pelecanos
Amazon.com ReviewGeorge Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a far cry from the upwardly mobile, tourist-attraction-speckled enclave of Margaret Truman (_Murder at the National Cathedr... -
Revolution - Jennifer Donnelly
Amazon.com ReviewRevolution, Jennifer Donnelly's remarkable new novel, weaves together the lives of Andi Alpers, a depressed modern-day teenager, and Alexandrine Paradis, a brave .... -
Remembrance - Danielle Steel
Amazon.com ReviewDanielle Steel produces another yarn that defies the imagination in Remembrance. Impoverished by World War II, Principessa Serena di San Tibaldo is working as a s.... -
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Amazon.com ReviewRegeneration, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and t...