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People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscriptthrough centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert,... -
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that... -
One of Ours - Willa Cather
SUMMARY:Willa Cather's Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldierClaude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modu... -
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Gregory
SUMMARY: One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winne... -
Nine Parts of Desire_ The Hidde - Geraldine Brooks
With a New Afterword As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal," Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East throughwars, insurrections, an... -
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi
Amazon.com ReviewAli Smith, Booker Prize–nominated, bestselling author of There But For The, and The Accidental, interviews Helen Oyeyemi about *Mr. Fox*... -
Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively
From Library JournalLively recently won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for this deeply moving, elegantly structured novel. The heroine is Claudia Hampton, an unconventional his... -
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of - Michael Chabon
From Publishers WeeklyPulitzer Prize-winning novelist Chabon teams up with the editors of Dave Eggers's McSweeney's magazine to create a fiction anthology with an innovative, simpl... -
Marie Curie - Kathleen Krull
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two—in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences. -
Long for This World_ The Strang - Jonathan Weiner
SUMMARY: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth a...