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Spitting off tall buildings - Dan Fante
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Bruno Dante -- aspiring playwright, part-time depressive, and full-time drunk -- has hitchhiked cross-country, escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of L... -
Second Helpings_ A Jessica Darl - Megan McCafferty
Product Description“Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide... -
Rivals - Jilly Cooper
EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the glorious Rutshire Chronicles.Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a ra... -
Realm of Light - Deborah Chester
Product DescriptionThe death of Emperor Kostimon has unleashed the dark gods upon the kingdom of Imperia--and only the Lady Elandra and the warrior Caelan have the power to save th... -
Parallel Stories - Peter Nadas; Imre Goldstein
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198... -
Once on a Moonless Night - Dai Sijie
SUMMARY: A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra-once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China-is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul drs"Ampere, w... -
Metrics_ How to Improve Key Bus - Martin Klubeck
Metrics are a hot topic. Executive leadership, boards of directors, management, and customers are all asking for data-based decisions. As a result, many managers, professionals, an... -
Lovelock - Orson Scott Card; Kathryn H. Ki
From Publishers WeeklyThe Hugo- and Nebula-winning Card ( The Ships of Earth ) teams up here with a relative newcomer (Kidd has published several non-SF novels with Card's own publ... -
London Calling - James Craig
Product DescriptionCan you win an election and cover up murder at the same time? In the middle of a General Election, someone is targeting former members of the ultra-exclusive Mer... -
La-Bas - Joris-Karl Huysmans
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