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Petals from the Sky - Mingmei Yip
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When twenty-year-old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - 'no freedom,... -
Persuader_ A Reacher Novel - Lee Child
SUMMARY: Jack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitme... -
Parallel Stories - Peter Nadas; Imre Goldstein
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198... -
Palindrome - Stuart Woods
SUMMARY: Palindrome When both your past and future spell fear. Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick ha... -
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold; Kate Read
"Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound free... -
Pakistan_ A Hard Country - Anatol Lieven
From Publishers WeeklyLieven (Chechnya), who has reported on Pakistan off and on for 20 years, offers a compelling argument for reorienting Western interests (and investments) in i... -
Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
The stunning conclusion to the smash "New York Times" bestselling series the Wicked YearsHailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delici... -
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote; John Berendt
Review"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."–NORMAN MAILER Product DescriptionPublished when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, ... -
Ordeal by Innocence - Agatha Christie
While serving a sentence for killing his mother - a crime he insisted he didn't commit - Jacko Argyle dies in prison. Two years later, the man who could have supported Jacko's alib... -
Oprah_ A Biography - Kitty Kelley
SUMMARY:For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influ枸ntial show in television history, ...