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Smoke and Mirrors_ Short Fictio - Neil Gaiman
SUMMARY: In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion . . . and anything is possible. In Smoke and Mirrors, Gaiman's imagination and supreme artistry transform a mun... -
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... -
Majestic - Whitley Strieber
From Publishers WeeklyStrieber, author of Communion and Transformation , continues to write on the implications of UFO sightings in this novel, a blend of fact and fiction. Working... -
Jane Austen Education, A - William Deresiewicz
An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remark... -
Growing Up bin Laden - Jean Sasson
Witness the frightening transformation of a loving husband into a hardened terrorist: his disapproval of modern conveniences, including electricity and medicine; his strategies for... -
Gold Mountain Blues - Ling Zhang
In the epic storytelling tradition of Amy Tan and Jiang Rong comes Gold Mountain Blues, a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guandong Prov... -
Four Fish_ The Future of the La - Paul Greenberg
SUMMARY: Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing... -
Emerald Magic_ Great Tales of I - Andrew M. Greeley
From Publishers WeeklyIt has been said that the Irish transformed English-speaking literature. This anthology may not reshape literature, but it is a sheer delight of grand storyte... -
Elric in the Dream Realms - Michael Moorcock
Review“The most significant UK author of sword and sorcery, a form he has both borrowed from and transformed.”—_Encyclopedia of Fantasy _“If you are familiar with Elric, I trust yo... -
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. T...