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Therese Raquin - Emile Zola; Robin Buss
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenl... -
Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Amazon.com ReviewIn this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In... -
The weight of water - Anita Shreve
Amazon.com ReviewA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can... -
The waste lands - Stephen King
SUMMARY:Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams-and nightmares-as he crosses a desert of damnation in a macabre world that is a twiste... -
The victim - W. E. B. Griffin
SUMMARY: "Tony the Zee" DeZego is found dead and bleeding on the concrete, and it is clear that it was a Mafia hit. But one puzzling fact remains: Penny Detweiler, a wealthy debuta... -
The system of the world - Neal Stephenson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Wa... -
The summer tree - Guy Gavriel Kay
SUMMARY: Five university students--Kimberly, Dave, Jennifer, Kevin, and Paul--meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of all worlds, Fionavar, where they discover who they were t... -
The summer of the Danes - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18th entry in the eminently successful medieval detective series. In the su... -
The sum of all men - David Farland
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Runelords* is that rare book that will remind you why you started reading fantasy in the first place. Much of the setting--and even some of the story--is con... -
The stars my destination - Alfred Bester; Alex Eisenstein;
SUMMARY: Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. R...