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The Last Dickens - Matthew Pearl
SUMMARY: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arriva... -
The Last Days - Wye8th
St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himse... -
The Lake of Dreams - Kim Edwards
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Kim EdwardsDear Readers, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter was that rare thing, a true word-of-mouth best seller, and... -
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
SUMMARY:An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The ... -
The Kingmaker - Brian Haig
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with a breathtaking array of crimes. Oddsmakers give Sean Drummond zero ch... -
The King's Speech - Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
SUMMARY:The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of th... -
The Kill - Emile Zola; Arthur Goldhammer
Here is a true publishing event--the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and... -
The Jokers - Albert Cossery
Who are the jokers?The jokers are the government, and the biggest joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious character of unequaled incompetence who presides ov... -
The Jewel Box - Anna Davis
From Publishers WeeklySex and the City meets London's Roaring '20s in Davis's satisfying fifth novel. Grace Rutherford leads a double life: by day she's an advertising copywriter .... -
The Jerusalem Syndrome - Marc Maron
The Jerusalem Syndrome