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The Short Sweet Dream of Eduard - Jimmy Breslin
Amazon.com ReviewJimmy Breslin's The Story of Eduardo Gutierrez tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young illegal Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City constructio.... -
The Short Novels of John Steinb - John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-_Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Mo... -
The Secret Lives of People in L - Simon Van Booy
From Publishers WeeklyA breadth of experience and setting distinguishes this somber first collection of 18 very short stories by New York-based Van Booy. "Little Birds" is narrated... -
The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go a... -
The Renaissance_ A Short Histor - Paul Johnson
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The Real Story_ The Gap Into Co - Stephen R. Donaldson
Amazon.com ReviewThe Real Story is a short but intense tale set in a future in which humans travel between the stars using "gap drives," controllable brain implants are punishable.... -
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
From Publishers WeeklyFoulds's erudite, Booker-shortlisted debut follows three men--Dr. Matthew Allen, mad peasant poet John Clare, and prodigious pipe-smoking poet Alfred Tennyson... -
The Presence - John Saul
From School Library JournalYA?Dr. Katharine Sundquist is hired to work on a short term archaeology project in beautiful Maui. It seems to be an ideal situation for her and her 16-y... -
The Petrified Ants - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of per... -
The Pegasus Secret - Gregg Loomis
From Publishers WeeklyShortly after ex-spy Lang Reilly's sister dies in an explosion in her Paris home, a reproduction of a painting by the 17th-century artist Poussin, which his s...