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The time traveler's wife - Audrey Niffenegger
SUMMARY: A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through ti... -
The terror_ a novel - Dan Simmons
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Hugo-winner Simmons (_Olympos_) brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written.... -
The tale of the body thief - Anne Rice
SUMMARY: "A wonderfully mesmerizing adventure, delving into the convoluted mind of one of modern fiction's most famous anti-heroes, the vampire Lestat. Rice's writing is elegant an... -
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 secret agent - Joseph Conrad
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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... -
The rose rent_ the thirteenth c - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: Judith Perle, a young widow who had greatly loved her husband, has conveyed one of her properties to the Abbey of Shrewsbury in return for the annual rent of one white ros... -
The road - Cormac McCarthy
SUMMARY:A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravage... -
The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
ReviewPraise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character...