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The Irresistible Henry House - Lisa Grunwald
SUMMARY: It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. ... -
The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (_Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard_) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for.... -
The House - Danielle Steel
FromSarah Anderson, a beautiful, successful thirtysomething attorney, is having a midlife crisis. She's become a workaholic, spending 60- to 70-hour weeks at the office, and she is... -
The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid
From Publishers WeeklyAn intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England's Lake District. Scholar Jane Gresham pu... -
The Face of Fear - Dean R. Koontz
Amazon.com ReviewYou and your friend Sarah are being chased by a homicidal maniac through an office building in the middle of the night. You take refuge in an empty office like fri... -
The Debacle - Emile Zola
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mer... -
The Day Before Midnight - Stephen Hunter
From Publishers WeeklyHunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kid... -
The Circus Fire - Stewart O'Nan
It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture ... -
The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher T
SUMMARY: The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Midd... -
The Book Without Words_ A Fable - Avi
From School Library JournalGrade 5-8–At the dawning of the Middle Ages, Thorston, an old alchemist, works feverishly to create gold and to dose himself with a concoction that will ...