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Washington Rules_ America's Pat - Andrew Bacevich
From Publishers WeeklyU.S. Army colonel turned academic, Bacevich (The Limits of Power) offers an unsparing, cogent, and important critique of assumptions guiding American military... -
Waiting - Ha Jin
Amazon.com Review"Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu." Like a fairy tale, Ha Jin's masterful novel of love and politics begins with a formul... -
This Is for the Mara Salvatruch - Samuel Logan
From Publishers WeeklyUsing all of the tools of a capable police investigation, Logan, a journalist based in Latin America, connects the fortunes of Brenda Paz, a Honduran-American... -
The favorites_ a novel - Mary Yukari Waters
SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic im... -
The Shun Lee Cookbook - Michael Tong; Elaine Louie; Rog
Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restauran... -
The Raven's Gift - Don Rearden
John Morgan and his wife can barely contain their excitement upon arriving as new teachers in a Yupik Inuit village on the windswept Alaskan tundra. Lured north in search of advent... -
The Ministry of Pain - Dubravka Ugresic; Michael Henry
SUMMARY: Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other you... -
The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks
From Publishers WeeklyU.S. Marine Logan Thibault carries a picture of a woman he'snever met because it brings him good luck. But when he sets out to find the woman, he is met with ... -
The Chronology of Water - Lidia Yuknavitch
INTRODUCTION BY CHELSEA CAIN:: This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, viol... -
The 5th Horseman - James Patterson
SUMMARY:It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer and the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney Yuki Castellano, lead an investigation into a s...