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Becoming Madame Mao - Anchee Min
Amazon.com ReviewMany writers have engaged in the project of rescuing female figures from history, but few have tackled such an unsympathetic character as Anchee Min does in her hi... -
Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
Amazon.com ReviewBecause of Winn-Dixie, a big, ugly, happy dog, 10-year-old Opal learns 10 things about her long-gone mother from her preacher father. Because of Winn-Dixie, Opal m... -
Beautiful Boy_ A Father's Journ - David Sheff
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best of the Month, February 2008: From as early as grade school, the world seemed to be on Nic Sheff's string. Bright and athletic, he excelled in ... -
Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
Amazon.com Review When a U.S. Marine is killed in Bangkok, the task of finding the murderer falls to Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, seemingly the only member of the Royal T... -
Awakening the Buddha Within _ E - Lama Surya Das
Amazon.com ReviewIf you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya ... -
Asylum - Patrick McGrath
Amazon.com ReviewThe New Yorker review praised Patrick McGrath's "ornate, deadpan style . . . distinguished by its unusual seriousness, its lack of camp," and described Asylum... -
As She Climbed Across the Table - Jonathan Lethem
Amazon.com ReviewParticle physics, false vacuum bubbles, an alternate universe--this is the stuff of Jonathan Lethem's novel As She Climbed Across the Table. The tale echoes __ in.... -
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Amazon.com ReviewFaulkner's distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successfu... -
Armadillo - William Boyd
Amazon.com ReviewLorimer Black may suffer from a serious sleep disorder and an obsession with the labyrinths of the British class system, but Armadillo's peculiar protagonist ... -
Appetite for Life_ The Biograph - Noel Riley Fitch
Amazon.com ReviewNoel Riley Fitch's savory new biography, Appetite for Life, reveals a woman as appealing as the good food and serious cooking she popularized. As a California gir....