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Fab_ An Intimate Life of Paul M - Howard Sounes
FromStarred Review Sounes has earned a well-deserved reputation for writing thoroughly researched, intricately detailed biographies. This comprehensive biography of McCartney is n.... -
Elric_ To Rescue Tanelorn - Michael Moorcock; Michael Wm. K
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Chapter One BETWEEN WAKEFULNESS AND sleeping, we have most of us had the illusion of hearing voices, scraps of conversat... -
Elizabeth's Women - Tracy Borman
Product DescriptionElizabeth I was born into a world of women.As a child, she was served by a predominantly female household of servants and governesses, with occasional visits fro... -
Dune_ House Harkonnen - Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderso
SUMMARY: Duke Leto Atreides is now the skilful and much-loved ruler of Caladan, served by loyal Duncan Idaho. To his court come Gurney Halleck, despised slave of the Harkonnens - a... -
Bone in the Throat - Anthony Bourdain
From Publishers WeeklyFirst-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds,... -
Best Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
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Another Life Altogether_ A Nove - Elaine Beale
SUMMARY: A keenly observed depiction of the effects of a mother's mental illness on her young daughter, Another Life Altogether is a profoundly moving, funny, and ultimately heartr... -
And Baby Makes Two - Dyan Sheldon
A sharply observed, bittersweet tale of the trials of teenage pregnancy. Lana Spiggs is fed up with everyone telling her what to do. If it isn't her mother nagging and shouting, it... -
All the Little Live Things - Wallace Earle Stegner
Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the se... -
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin ...