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The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
SUMMARY: This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. -
The Last Juror - John Grisham
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1970, small town newspaper The Clanton Times went belly up. With financial assistance from a rich relative, it's purchased by 23-year-old Willie Traynor, forme.... -
The Lace Makers of Glenmara - Heather Barbieri
SUMMARY: "You can always start again," Kate Robinson's mother once told her. "All it takes is a new thread."Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, Kate follows her mother's advice and... -
The Invention of Air - Steven L. Johnson
Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and pol... -
The Gold Falcon - Katharine Kerr
Orphaned by a cholera epidemic, Neb and his young brother are sent to the desolate farm of their last living relative. But when the savage Horsekin tribes begin raiding the village... -
The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem
From Publishers WeeklyIf there still remains any doubt, this novel confirms Lethem's status as the poet of Brooklyn and of motherless boys. Projected through the prism of race rela... -
The Fifth Servant - Kenneth Wishnia
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Whoever saves a single life saves the entire world . . . In 1592, as the Catholic Church and the Protestants battle for control of the soul of Europe, Prague is a... -
The Farming of Bones_ A Novel - Edwidge Danticat
SUMMARY: In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but ... -
The Drop - Michael Connelly
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, December 2011: With his retirement looming, LAPD's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch takes on two seemingly unrelated cases. The fi... -
The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat
Amazon.com ReviewIn her third novel, The Dew Breaker, the prolific Edwidge Danticat spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the U....