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The Seal Wife - Kathryn Harrison
Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the sto... -
The Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon
In a novel featuring Outlander hero Jamie Fraser in a major role, #1 bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the Lord John series.Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Jacobite officer paro... -
The Science of the Oven - Herve This
Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When mea... -
The Science of Fear - Dan Gardner
Blink meets The Culture of Fear in a provocative look at the new brain science of risk: how hard-wired fears misguide and manipulate us every day. From terror attacks to the war on... -
The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell
SUMMARY: It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medi... -
The Saboteurs - W.E.B. Griffin
From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin's Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex B... -
The Russian Concubine - Kate Furnivall
SUMMARY: A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia... -
The Running Man - Stephen King
SUMMARY:The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality show The year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's la... -
The Rules of Silence - David Lindsey
From Publishers WeeklyLindsey is an efficient thriller author who sometimes (as in Mercy) reaches considerable heights of suspense and terror. The present book, however, is no more... -
The Ruined Map - Kobo Abe
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative sus...