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Union Atlantic - Adam Haslett
SUMMARY: The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the f... -
Understanding Our Mind - Thich Nhat Hanh; Rachel Neumann
This profound look at Buddhist psychology offers important insights into how Buddhism's ancient teachings apply to the modern world. Basing his work on the writings of the great fi... -
The weight of water - Anita Shreve
Amazon.com ReviewA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can... -
The tale of the body thief - Anne Rice
SUMMARY: "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant an... -
The girl in the blue dress - Mary Burchell
Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original mo... -
The White Castle - Orhan Pamuk
From Publishers WeeklyOne of Turkey's foremost novelists explores the ambivalent relationship between master and slave in this elegant, postmodernist twist on the theme of the dopp... -
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The Modern Library is proud to include Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out--together with a new Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Cunningham. Publ... -
The Tenth Muse - Judith Jones
From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food world’s most admired figures—an evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World Wa... -
The Ten Most Beautiful Experime - George Johnson
From Publishers WeeklyAward-winning science writer Johnson (A Fire in the Mind; Strange Beauty) calls readers away from the industrialized mega-scale of modern science (w... -
The Sleepwalkers - Hermann Broch; Willa Muir
From Publishers WeeklySpanning some 20 years, Broch's epic trilogy of daily life in Germany established him as an important modernist innovator. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business...