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The leper of Saint Giles_ the f - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael's abbey, leaving the monk with a terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing is... -
The kill-off - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Luane Devore is about to be murdered. It's her favorite topic of conversation. Just who will do the murdering is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps i... -
The investigators - W.E.B. Griffin
SUMMARY: A brutal crime...A group of urban terrorists...An investigation of dirty cops... The leads in these supposedly unconnected cases have become tangled in some very ugly--and... -
The housekeeper and the profess - Yoko Ogawa
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Ogawa (_The Diving Pool_) weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow in her exquisite new novel. Narrated by the Housekeeper, the char... -
The help - Kathryn Stockett
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a d... -
The first billion_ a novel - Christopher Reich
Amazon.com ReviewMoney makes the world go round for Jett Gavallon, a high-tech entrepreneur who's on the brink of bringing a Russian telecom startup to market with an IPO worth bil... -
The favorites_ a novel - Mary Yukari Waters
SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic im... -
The essential writings of Machi - Niccolo Machiavelli; Peter Cons
FromThe synonym for political cynicism, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote much more than The Prince, for which he is (in)famous. It leads off this anthology, which both spans his range of.... -
The death of Ivan Ilyich_ and, - Leo Tolstoy (graf); Ann Slater
Review ?No one has ever excelled Tolstoy in expressing that specific flavor, the exact quality of a feeling.? ?Isaiah Berlin -- Review Product Description This ne... -
The darkest road - Guy Gavriel Kay
EDITORIAL REVIEW: As the Unraveller's armies march to battle and a plague-filled rain devastates the planet, the warriors of Light call upon one of the most ancient powers of evil ...