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Cairo Modern - Naguib Mahfouz; William M. Huti
The novelist's camera pans from the dome of King Fuad University (now Cairo University) to students streaming out of the campus, focusing on four students in their twenties, each r... -
Breaking Blue - Timothy Egan
From Publishers WeeklyIn 1935, Spokane, Wash., was in the sixth year of the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. Civilian Conservation Corps workers were arriving in droves fro... -
Bone in the Throat - Anthony Bourdain
From Publishers WeeklyFirst-time author Bourdain presents a savory portion of gangster tartare spiced with salty mobspeak, coked-up chefs, wild entrepreneurs and foul-mouthed feds,... -
Blood from a stone - Donna Leon
SUMMARY: When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario Guido Brunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writer you've never heard of...She uses the relati... -
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
SUMMARY: From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicles comes this superb collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s ... -
Blaze of Glory - Simon Hawke
SUMMARY:The "U.S.S. Enterprise"(TM) is assigned to the planet K'Trall -- a planet just coming out rom under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet's newly emergi... -
Black Ops - W. E. B. Griffin
From Publishers WeeklyIn bestseller Griffin's gung-ho fifth presidential agent novel (after The Shooters), the U.S. president assigns Lt. Col. Charley Castillo, a member of t... -
Billy Budd & Other Stories - Herman Melville; Frederick Busc
Product DescriptionMelville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual d... -
Bicycle diaries - David Byrne
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A renowned musician and visual artist presents an idiosyncratic behind-thehandlebars view of the world's cities** Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been ri... -
Beyond Religion_ Ethics for a W - Dalai Lama Xiv; H. H. Dalai Lam
Review"An impressive guide for teaching religious tolerance and respect to readers of all ages."--Kirkus Reviews* "This wise, humane book, an or...