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The Liar - Stephen Fry
SUMMARY: Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungari... -
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before h... -
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-s... -
The Darkest Evening of the Year - Dean Koontz
EDITORIAL REVIEW: With each of his #1 *New York Times* bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten ... -
The Cambridge Introduction to M - Adam A. Watt
Product DescriptionProust's A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) changed the course of modern narrative fiction. This Introduction provides an account of... -
The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
From Publishers WeeklyWhen Pessoa died in 1935, a few years short of 50, he left behind a trunk of mostly unpublished writing in a variety of languages; his Lisbon publishers and v... -
The Angel in the Corner - Monica Dickens
An affair with the unpredictable Joe led to a marriage that Virginia was determined would work. But Joe had no reason to trust or respect women. As he drew her into one humiliating... -
Surrender to the Will of the Ni - Glen Cook
Product DescriptionPiper Hecht’s first and greatest secret is that he knows how to kill gods. What’s not a secret is that he knows how to win wars -
Stuff White People Like - Christian Lander
EDITORIAL REVIEW: They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday *New York Times*, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all a... -
Storm Prey - John Sandford
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. At the start of bestseller Sandford's superb 20th Lucas Davenport thriller (after Wicked Prey), the getaway vehicle from a botched early...