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The King of Lies - John Hart
SUMMARY: Jackson Workman Pickens—known to most as “Work”—mindlessly holds together his disintegrating life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously d... -
The Kadin - Bertrice Small
Product DescriptionAbducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie there would be no escaping the harem of the wealthy and pow... -
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
SUMMARY: A New York Times Bestseller In 1949 four Chinese women - drawn together by the shadow of their past - begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks, ea... -
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (_Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard_) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for.... -
The Information Officer - Mark Mills
SUMMARY: Summer 1942. A small, windswept island in the Mediterranean has become the most bombed patch of earth on the planet, as a fiercely independent people withstand relentless ... -
The Information Diet - Clay A. Johnson
The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of every 24 in a state of constant consumption. Not eating, but gorging on information ceaselessly spewed from the screens an... -
The Hobbit_ Or There and Back A - J. R. R. Tolkien
SUMMARY:Written for J.R.R. Tolkien's own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless ... -
The Harvest Gypsies_ On the Roa - John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenb
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm worke... -
The Habitation of the Blessed - Catherynne M. Valente
From Publishers WeeklyIn 1165, a letter ostensibly written by the distant Christian king Prester John describing a kingdom of wonders rocked medieval Europe. In this enchanting ret... -
The Gypsy Morph - Terry Brooks
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic.Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Sword of Sha...