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The Metropolis Case_ A Novel - Matthew Gallaway
From Publishers WeeklyIn his ambitious debut, Gallaway jumps backward and forward in time between two cities, spiraling in on four characters connected by music: Lucien, an opera s... -
The Life and Opinions of Tristr - Laurence Sterne
Introduction and Notes by Robert FolkenflikRich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,... -
The Last Testament - Sam Bourne
SUMMARY: April 2003: As his nation descends into chaos, an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities--unaware that his... -
The Last Ember - Daniel Levin
Amazon.com ReviewProduct DescriptionAn Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman's preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless ma... -
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 Heavens Are Empty_ Discover - Avrom Bendavid-Val
In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of which are ingrained in p... -
The Fading Dream_ Thorn of Brel - Keith Baker
SUMMARY: The award-winning creator of Eberron® infiltrates the magical cities of the feyspires.Thorn’s latest mission: protect the prince of Cyre, a monarch in name only since his ... -
The Face of Another - Kobo Abe
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of ... -
The Dealer and the Dead - Gerald Seymour
Eighteen years after the barbarous war with the Serbs that tore their communities apart, a group of Croation villagers discover the identity of the Englishman whom they believe bet... -
The Darkness Before the Dawn - Ryan Hughes
Jedra lives in the streets, Kayan in the temple. When misfortune throws them together, they discover psionic power greater than almost any other on Athas, a power potent enough to ...