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The Devils Highway - Luis Alberto Urrea
From Publishers WeeklyIn May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. Am... -
The Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan; Alexis Seab
From Publishers WeeklyKadushin, whose lush voice brought the heroine of Stephenie Meyers's Twilight series to life, does her best to inject some intrigue and mystery into thi... -
The Concubine's Daughter - Pai Kit Fai
From Publishers WeeklyIn 1906 Southern China, newborn Li-Xia (Li) is nearly murdered by her elderly father because she is a girl, only to be saved by the specter of a fox fairy. Li... -
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a... -
The Book_ On the Taboo Against - Alan Watts
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest... -
The Blessings of the Animals_ A - Katrina Kittle
SUMMARY: From Katrina Kittle, critically acclaimed author of The Kindness of Strangers, comes a wry and moving story of forgiveness, flexibility, happiness, and the art of moving o... -
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
SUMMARY: The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel. Renowned for its intensity and outstandingly vivid prose, it broke existing boundaries between fiction and reality and helped to... -
The Ayn Rand lexicon_ objectivi - Ayn Rand; Harry Binswanger
SUMMARY: A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so exte... -
The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Choice, perhaps the highest good in the American socioeconomic lexicon, is a very mixed blessing, according to this fascinating study of decis... -
The Appeal - John Grisham
30 SUMMARY: Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused ...