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Portrait of a Killer - Patricia Cornwell
Mystery and thriller writer extraordinaire Patricia Cornwell uses her crime-solving know-how to solve one of history's most baffling cases: the infamous crime spree of Jack the Rip... -
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharpe
A Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, Porterhouse Blue is one of the best-loved, classic comic novels of our times Porterhouse College i... -
Photoshop Compositing Secrets - Matt Kloskowski
Unlocking the Key to Perfect Selections and Amazing Photoshop Effects for Totally Realistic CompositesCompositing is one of the hottest trends in Photoshop and photography today fo... -
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town - Lawrence Schiller
In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenét Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable fam... -
Palm Sunday_ An Autobiographica - Kurt Vonnegut
Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marr... -
Oracle Bones - Peter Hessler
From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outs... -
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (_Abide with Me_, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living l... -
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich O... -
Manhattan Transfer - John Dos Passos
A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, wi... -
Lords of Finance_ The Bankers W - Liaquat Ahamed
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose pe...