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Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them li... -
Kings of the North - Elizabeth Moon
From Publishers WeeklyThe languorous sequel to 2010's Oath of Fealty finds many characters moving up in the world, including Kieri Phelan, the king of Lyonya, and Dorrin, now Duke ... -
How to Eat_ The Pleasures and P - Nigella Lawson
Amazon.com Review"Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It's about d... -
Home to Italy - Peter Pezzelli
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In this delightful, moving debut novel, Peter Pezzelli brings to life the earthy sensuality of Tuscany-- the smell of just-baked bread wafting through the village... -
Heart Earth - Ivan Doig
From Publishers WeeklyThis moving complement to Doig's acclaimed memoir, This House of Sky, chronicles the author's childhood in Montana and Arizona in the 1940s. Copyright 1994 Re... -
Freaks and Revelations - Davida Wills Hurwin
SUMMARY: This raw, moving novel follows two teenagers-one, a Mohawk-wearing 17-year-old violent misfit; the other, a gay 13-year-old cast out by his family, hustling on the streets... -
First Family_ Abigail and John - Joseph J. Ellis
SUMMARY: The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of "Founding Brothers" and "His Excellency "brings America's preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating n... -
Fatelessness - Imre Kertesz
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **One of *Publishers Weekly's* Fifty Best Books of 1992***Fateless *is a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy’s experiences in German concentr... -
Everything Here Is the Best Thi - Justin Taylor
Each story in this crystalline, spare, oddly moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by delusions and misapprehensions that quickly bring them to impass... -
Enigmatic Pilot_ A Tall Tale To - Kris Saknussemm
Enigmatic Pilot is Kris Saknussemm’s outrageously brilliant yet profoundly moving exploration and excavation of the American dream—and nightmare. In 1844, in a still-young America,...