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Self's punishment - Bernhard Schlink; Walter Popp
From Publishers WeeklyThe successful film adaptation of Schlink's The Reader should give a boost to his third mystery to feature aging German PI Gerhard Self (after 2007's Sel... -
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Persuasion - Jane Austen
SUMMARY: The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth. -
Mr. Bridge - Evan Shelby Connell
Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something, even when what they need is more of him an... -
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The poet in Whitman developed late and slowly while his early writings came only from the surface of his mind. But when he was scarcely in his teens he was publis... -
Juice - Eric Walters; Eric
"What happens between you and me stays here. It's nobody's business but ours." "But isn' using steroids sort of like cheating?" I asked. "It would be if you were the only one doing... -
Ivanhoe - A Romance - Walter Scott
SUMMARY: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic ... -
Insurgency - Walter Knight
Colonel Joey R. Czerinski and his band of legionnaires try to quell a citizen uprising in planet New Colorado’s New Gobi Desert and foil an insurgency plot to kill the spider Arthr... -
I Love a Broad Margin to My Lif - Maxine Hong Kingston
From Publishers WeeklyTold in free verse reminiscent of one of Kingston's idols, Walt Whitman, this uncommon memoir of the artist at 65 is informed by the wide margins on the pages... -
Girls in Trucks - Katie Crouch
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmothe...