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On food and cooking_ the scienc - Harold McGee
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is t... -
Natasha's dance_ a cultural his - Orlando Figes
SUMMARY: History on a grand scale-an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizationsA People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "m... -
Naked Empire - Terry Goodkind
SUMMARY: Beginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with six subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide. Now Goodkin... -
Killer Move - Michael Marshall
Stephen King hailed Michael Marshall's novel Straw Men as “a masterpiece . . . brilliantly written and scary as hell.” Now, Marshall returns with this latest unnerving tale—a... -
Kevin Guilfoile - The Thousand (v5)
SUMMARY: Kevin Guilfoile's riveting follow-up to "Cast of Shadows" ("spellbinding"--"Chicago Tribune;" "a masterpiece of intelligent plotting"--"Salon") centers on an extraordinary... -
Ilium - Dan Simmons
Amazon.com ReviewGenre-hopping Dan Simmons returns to science fiction with the vast and intricate masterpiece Ilium. Within, Simmons weaves three astounding story lines into one E.... -
Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The eighteenth-century picaresque masterpiece- now in a new editionA triumph of English satire, Humphry Clinker was published just three months prior to its author's death in 1771.... -
Holder of the World - Bharati Mukherjee
"An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee proveshe is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles to weave both the futu... -
God Hates Us All - Hank Moody; Jonathan Grotenstei
Product DescriptionA wry literary masterpiece, God Hates Us All is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody's self-loathing yet darkly likeable narrator ... -
Everything Flows - Vasily Grossman
A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman's final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main...