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And the Rat Laughed - Nava Semel
SUMMARY: On the last day of 1999, a survivor grandmother in Tel Aviv shares with her granddaughter her tragic life story as a child hidden in a pit, with only a rat for company. Th... -
American Music - Jane Mendelsohn
Amazon.com ReviewJane Mendelsohn on American MusicThe first moment of inspiration for American Music came in 1996 when I learned the remarkable fa... -
Alligator Bayou - Donna Jo Napoli
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up—Building on her extensive research conducted after reading a newspaper article about the lynching of Sicilian grocers in Tallulah, LA, in 1899... -
After the quake_ stories - Haruki Murakami; Jay Rubin
Amazon.com ReviewHaruki Murakami, a writer both mystical and hip, is the West's favorite Japanese novelist. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Murakami lived abroad until 1995. That year, two... -
African Laughter - Doris May Lessing
'African Laughter' is a portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old South... -
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Amazon.com ReviewWill Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living ... -
A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
From Publishers WeeklySmith's remarkably adept debut thriller traces the fates of three people and a wrecked plane with $4.4 million. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.... -
A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
Amazon.com ReviewOprah Book Club® Selection, December 1999: In A Map of the World, appearance overwhelms reality and communal hysteria threatens common sense. How... -
A Journey_ My Political Life - Tony Blair
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short year... -
A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
Amazon.com ReviewIn this Hugo-winning 1991 SF novel, Vernor Vinge gives us a wild new cosmology, a galaxy-spanning "Net of a Million Lies," some finely imagined aliens, and much na...