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The Revenge of the Radioactive - Elizabeth Stuckey-French
This lively, intricately plotted, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly touching family drama combines the wit of Carl Hiaasen with the southern charm of Jill McCorkle. Seventy-s... -
The Replacement Child - Christine Barber
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Late on a Monday night, editor Lucy Newroe answers the phone in the *Capital Tribune* newsroom. The caller is the notorious Scanner Lady---an anonymous elderly ti... -
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Amazon.com ReviewThe novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical pract... -
The Red Thread - Dawn Farnham
Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply physical and a ma... -
The Red King - Michael A. Martin; Andy Mangels
Investigating the disappearance of a secret Romulan fleet, the U.S.S. Titan, commanded by Captain William Riker, is unexpectedly propelled more than 200,000 light-years into the Sm... -
The Red Garden - Alice Hoffman
From Publishers WeeklyHoffman brings us 200 years in the history of Blackwell, a small town in rural Massachusetts, in her insightful latest. The story opens with the arrival of th... -
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham
Review“[Maugham is] a great artist . . . a genius.” –Theodore Dreiser “[Maugham’s] excessively rare gift of story-telling . . . is almost the equal of imagination itself.” –_The Su... -
The Rabbi of Lud - Stanley Elkin
A small-town Rabbi's quiet life is turned upside down when his only daughter drops a bombshell The only long-term occupants of Lud, New Jersey, reside in its cemeteries,a fact that... -
The Quiet Room - Lori Schiller; Amanda Bennett
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the stree... -
The Purgatorio - Dante Alighieri; Archibald T. M
Review"In the years of my reading Dante, after the first overwhelming, reverberating spell of the Inferno, which I think never leaves one afterward, it was the Purgatorio...