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The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy
Amazon.com ReviewThe Jade Peony, Wayson Choy's first novel and a RUSA Notable Book, is a genre-bending, memoirlike collection of stories about a family in Vancouver's Chinatown be.... -
The Island of the Day Before - Umberto Eco
After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he has managed to pull himself aboar... -
The Invention of Air - Steven L. Johnson
Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts—in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion—the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and pol... -
The Inner Circle - Brad Meltzer
SUMMARY:#1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer returns with a pulse-pounding new novel of lies and deception at the highest levels of government. There are storie... -
The Inn at Angel Island - Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spenc
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *New York Times* bestselling authors present a new series set on an island a stone's skip away from Cape Light... Welcome to Angel Island, not far from the sh... -
The Informers - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
SUMMARY: A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today. When Gabriel Santoros biography is scath... -
The Informers - Bret Easton Ellis
In this seductive and chillingly nihilistic novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, returns to Los Angeles, the city whose moral badlands he portrayed unforgettabl... -
The Hummingbird's Daughter_ A N - Luis Alberto Urrea
This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records... -
The House of Rothschild_ . Mone - Niall Ferguson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The first authoritative and compulsively readable history of the rise of this legendary banking dynastyIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remark- able, elusi... -
The House That Jack Built_ The - Guy Adams
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Jackson Leaves: an Edwardian house in Penylen, built in 1906, semi-detached, three storeys, spacious, beautifully presented, and left in good condition to Rob and...