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The box garden - Carol Shields
SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother's second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new u... -
The botany of desire_ a plant's - Michael Pollan
SUMMARY: Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the fl... -
The alcoholics - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, ad... -
The Zenith Angle - Bruce Sterling
Amazon.com ReviewThe Zenith Angle, futurist Bruce Sterling's first novel since Zeitgeist (2000), tells the story of Derek "Van" Vandeveer. As The Zenith Angle op... -
The Zahir - Paulo Coelho
Set in Paris and in the enchanting landscape of central Asia, this new novel by the author of the international bestsellers The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes follows the journey of ... -
The Yellow Silk - Don Bassingthwaite
SUMMARY:He told stories... he told even more lies. He told people what they wanted to hear... he told himself he wasn't doing anything wrong. He told the mysterious stranger... -
The Yellow Admiral - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of... -
The Year Money Grew on Trees - Aaron Hawkins
Chapter 1: A Bad Choice and a Worse One My dad always said that his feet were the only stupid parts of his body. They had walked him into every bad decision he had ever made, so h... -
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty intr... -
The Worst Child I Ever Had - Anne Fine
Sniffers, fussy, sneaky, naughty and bad-tempered children are all awful - but who's the worst child ever? Mrs Mackle is sure that it's Susan Solly! But what has snail-mad Susan do...