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The life of Charlotte Bronte - Elizabeth Gaskell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of t... -
The investigators - W.E.B. Griffin
SUMMARY: A brutal crime...A group of urban terrorists...An investigation of dirty cops... The leads in these supposedly unconnected cases have become tangled in some very ugly--and... -
The help - Kathryn Stockett
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a d... -
The great American steamboat ra - Benton Rain Patterson
SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book t... -
The gates of November - Chaim Potok
SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the enti... -
The food of a younger land_ a p - Mark Kurlansky
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York ... -
The flesh in the furnace - Dean Koontz
Early Koontz story of a race of living puppets doing the bidding of the Puppet Master. -
The favorites_ a novel - Mary Yukari Waters
SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic im... -
The fall of the dream machine - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY: Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it. -
The drawing of the three - Stephen King
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocai...