SUMMARY: In her first novel since her widely praised debut, The Invisible Circus, Jennifer Egan demonstrates once again her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding story with language...
SUMMARY: When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a ‘Have You Seen This Child?’ flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart sto...
SUMMARY: The lives and adventures of the four March sisters--Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy--are set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century New England while their father is off fighti...
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Benedict (_The Mormon Way of Doing Business_) has taken a complicated court case centered on eminent domain and turned it into a page-turner w...
Wer würde nicht gerne sein Leben einfacher und überschaubarer gestalten? Die Welt ist schließlich komplex genug. Simplify your life hält, was der Titel verspricht: Werner Tiki Küst...
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it...
From Library JournalHugo's classic tale set against the backdrop of political upheaval in 19th-century France retains its timeless appeal in this notably condensed rendition of the...
FromWhen Troy Chance spots what she thinks is a small boy being tossed off the back of a passing ferry, she instinctively jumps into the icy waters of Lake Champlain. She rescues t...
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