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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 zombie survival guide_ comp - Max Brooks
SUMMARY: The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this bo... -
The thirteenth tale_ a novel - Diane Setterfield
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. *All children mythologize their birth***...So begins the prologue of reclus... -
The shelters of stone - Jean M. Auel
Amazon.com ReviewJean Auel's fifth novel about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon cavewoman raised by Neanderthals, is the biggest comeback bestseller in Amazon.com history. In The Shelters of S... -
The royals - Kitty Kelley
Amazon.com ReviewThe killer quill of Kitty Kelley, who skewered Jackie Onassis, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Reagan, goes for royal blood in her latest tell-all biography, The Royals..... -
The life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of t... -
The last secret_ a novel - Mary McGarry Morris
From Publishers WeeklyKeeping secrets leads to calamitous consequences in Morris's disturbing domestic thriller. At age 17, Nora Trimble has a dangerous eight-day summer escapade w... -
The kill-off - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Luane Devore is about to be murdered. It's her favorite topic of conversation. Just who will do the murdering is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps i... -
The incumbent - Alton Gansky
SUMMARY: An abduction a trail of disturbing clues Politics are about to become deadly. As the controversial mayor of the beautiful coastal community of Santa Rita, Madison "Maddy" ...