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Thief of Light - Denise Rossetti
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A luminous new erotic fantasy romance from the author of *The Flame and the Shadow*.** In the subtropical city of Caracole, Erik the Golden is widely known as ... -
They do it with Mirrors - Agatha Christie
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Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris
Amazon.com ReviewIn this lively biography, Edmund Morris returns to the gifted, energetic, and thoroughly controversial man whom the novelist Henry James called "King Theodore." In... -
Them - Jon Ronson
Review'A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world' Louis Theroux, Guardian; 'Very entertaining and very frightening' Q magazine About th... -
The weight of water - Anita Shreve
Amazon.com ReviewA newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can... -
The thirteenth tale_ a novel - Diane Setterfield
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. *All children mythologize their birth***...So begins the prologue of reclus... -
The system of the world - Neal Stephenson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 'Tis done. The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Wa... -
The shadow of the wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves
SUMMARY: The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Ba... -
The serpent in the garden_ a no - Janet Gleeson
SUMMARY: She opened the shagreen box. Couched in gray silk was an emerald necklace, one he had not seen for twenty years. The stones were just as he recalled them: a dozen or more,... -
The seamstress - Frances de Pontes Peebles
SUMMARY: Emília and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstr...