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A New Selected Poems - Galway Kinnell
That Silent EveningI will go back to that silent evening when we lay together and talked in silent voices, while outside slow lumps of soft snow fell, hushing as they got near the ... -
A Murder Is Announced - Agatha Christie
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder is announced and will take place... -
A Mischief in the Snow - Margaret Miles
SUMMARY: A winter of discontent...January 1766. A dangerous mishap brings young widow Charlotte Willett unexpectedly to bleak and marshy Boar Island, a few miles from the village o... -
A Hedonist in the Cellar_ Adven - Jay McInerney
Amazon.com ReviewThose who find most wine writing hopelessly recondite will eagerly quaff novelist Jay McInerney's A Hedonist in the Cellar, a collection of his essays originally .... -
A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine
Review"Another valuable ally in your personal morale campaign can be found in William B. Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, which removes the gr... -
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
SUMMARY: In her best-selling story collection, Birds of America (“[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability” —James M... -
A Fable - William Faulkner
Product DescriptionThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 195. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensi... -
A Devil Is Waiting - Jack Higgins
A devil is indeed waiting . . . The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate ... -
A Desert Called Peace - Tom Kratman
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing –as humans will -- into dozens of nation-sta... -
A Brief History of Britain, 166 - William Gibson
How Great Britain was born - from the restoration to the Great Exhibition. In 1660 England emerged from the devastations of the Civil Wars and restored the king, Charles II, to the...