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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon.com ReviewThe novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical pract... -
The Rational Optimist_ How Pros - Matt Ridley
From Publishers WeeklyIdeas have sex, in Ridley's schema; they follow a process of natural selection of their own, and as long as they continue to do so, there is reason to retire ... -
The Rainmaker - John Grisham
Amazon.com ReviewRudy Baylor, a new law school graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he faces joblessness and bankruptcy--unless he can win an insura... -
The Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri; Archibald T. M
Review"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio... -
The Promise - Danielle Steel
Product DescriptionDetermined to get married despite parental disapproval, young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Nancy McAllister are separated just before their wedding by a... -
The President's Daughter - Mariah Stewart
From Publishers WeeklyWhile writing a biography of Graham Hayward, the upright and highly regarded former president of the United States, journalist Simon Keller, the books rather ... -
The Practice of System and Netw - Thomas A. Limoncelli; Christina
Synopsis:The first edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration introduced a generation of system and network administrators to a modern IT methodol... -
The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria
Amazon.com ReviewBook Description"This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else." So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new ... -
The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Erdrich's 13th novel, a multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance, finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a f... -
The Pirates of Somalia_ Inside - Jay Bahadur
Review"The inner workings of the world of Somali pirates are astutely explored by Bahadur. . . an engaging account, full of solid analysis. . . What’s especially impressive (aside ...