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The Memoirs of a Survivor - Doris Lessing
SUMMARY: "An extraordinary and compelling meditation about the enduring need for loyalty, love and responsibility."-- Time "A brilliant fable." -- Maureen Howard, front page, The N... -
The Last Empress - Anchee Min
Amazon.com ReviewPower is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous novel, Empress Orchid, Anchee Min covered the first part of.... -
The Irish Warrior - Kris Kennedy
EDITORIAL REVIEW: As his men are slaughtered around him, legendary Irish warrior Finian O'Melaghlin is held captive by the despised English Lord Rardove. Struggling to break free, ... -
The Inferno - Dante Alighieri; John Ciardi
The immortal drama of a journey through Hell.Belonging in the immortal company of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human dra... -
The House of Green Turf - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: A famous singer wakes up in hospital after a car crash, haunted by the certainty that she has been responsible for a death at some time in the past. She hires an private i... -
The Highest Frontier - Joan Slonczewski
One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college o... -
The Heiress - Lynsay Sands
Desperately seeking a husband . . .Suzette is not like other heiresses; she wants a poor husband, a gentleman who will be so grateful for her dowry that he will allow her access to... -
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece... -
The Fire in Ember - DiAnn Mills
John Timmons is a responsible rancher who saves a young woman from hanging and begins to let her into his heart. When she brings danger into the lives of his family, he fears that ... -
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino; Alexander O. S
FromOne of Japan’s best-selling crime novelists makes his American debut in an atmospheric thriller about a desperate woman, Yasuko, who, craving a peacefull life with her daughter...