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Sophie's Choice - William Styron
"Styron's most impressive performance. . . . Belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces." —Washington Post Book World Winner of the 1980 National Book Award, So... -
Smonk - Tom Franklin
From Publishers WeeklyE.O. Smonk is an ugly, unwashed, murdering rapist who has terrorized the small town of Old Texas, Ala., for years. In 1911, the town summons Smonk to stand tr... -
Saul Bellow_ Letters - Saul Bellow; Benjamin Taylor
ReviewBest of 2010 Lists The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani's Top Ten of 2010 The Washington Post, John Yardley's Best of 2010 Minneapo... -
Roses Are Red - James Patterson
SUMMARY:THE SPECTACULAR EIGHTH #1 BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF POP GOES THE WEASEL#1 Washington Post#1 Publishers Weekly#1 Wall Street Journal#1 Chicago Tribune#1 Entertainme... -
Right as Rain_ A Novel - George P. Pelecanos
Amazon.com ReviewGeorge Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a far cry from the upwardly mobile, tourist-attraction-speckled enclave of Margaret Truman (_Murder at the National Cathedr... -
Red Prophet - Orson Scott Card
SUMMARY: "Red Prophet" Volume II of the Tales of Alvin Maker "Suddenly the saga of Alvin Maker begins to thrill."--"Washington Post Book World" ""Red Prophet" is but a section of a... -
Our Lady of the Forest - David Guterson
Amazon.com ReviewDavid Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest navigates between the mystical and the cynical in its slowly paced telling of a Marian encounter in North Fork, Washington.... -
Nocturnes_ Five Stories of Musi - Kazuo Ishiguro
From Publishers WeeklyThis suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American sin... -
Murder at the Washington Tribun - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyInstead of using an actual D.C. locale, Truman sets her solid 21st mystery (after 2004's Murder at Union Station) at the fictional Washington Tribune -
Murder at the Opera_ A Capital - Margaret Truman
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Truman's 22nd D.C. mystery (after 2005's Murder at the Washington Tribune), one of her strongest, opens with what looks like a simple crime of pas....