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The long road home - Danielle Steel
SUMMARY: Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark si... -
The log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The housekeeper and the profess - Yoko Ogawa
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Ogawa (_The Diving Pool_) weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow in her exquisite new novel. Narrated by the Housekeeper, the char... -
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 forever war - Dexter Filkins
SUMMARY: From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Thro... -
The feng-shui junkie - Brian Gallagher
SUMMARY: Julie and Ronan are the perfect married couple: with two incomes, and both personal and professional success, theirs is a lifestyle to envy. That is, until the day Julie c... -
The emerald scepter - Thomas M. Reid
Product DescriptionThe last in the trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from Thomas M. Reid. This is the concluding novel in a trilogy exploring the political intrigue of a mercenary... -
The death of Ivan Ilyich_ and, - Leo Tolstoy (graf); Ann Slater
Review ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin -- Review Product Description This ne... -
The dark side of the sun - Terry Pratchett
SUMMARY: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfa... -
The book of other people - Zadie Smith
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, punge...