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The Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr
From Library JournalDr. Lazlo Kreizler, protagonist of The Alienist (LJ 3/1/94), is back with his idiosyncratic companions in Carr's latest mystery thriller. Set in 1897 New York a... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poet - Tony Barnstone; Ping Chou
Product DescriptionUnmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry_ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred po... -
The American Way to Change - Shirley Sagawa
How ordinary citizens dedicated to service can change the face of America's most critical issues What if the nation were able to capitalize on the energy of Americans willing to .... -
The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
"When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily."So begins The Almost Moon, Alice Sebold's astonishing, brilliant, and daring new novel. A woman steps over the line into ... -
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvar... -
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular.... -
The Accident Man - Tom Cain
From Publishers Weekly The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely cap... -
The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturb... -
That Awful Mess on the via Meru - Carlo Emilio Gadda; Italo Calvi
Review“The experimental masterpiece modern Italian literature has long been awaiting.… There is a kinship to Joyce, especially in Gadda’s inspired outbursts of comic invective, his... -
Tetrarch - Ian Irvine
SUMMARY: Santhenar is on its knees. The war with the alien lyrinx drags on, and humanity is losing it, but there is worse to come. The Aachim have invaded with an irresistible forc...