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A home at the end of the world - Michael Cunningham
SUMMARY: From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours , comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsu... -
A cold treachery - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewIntegral to most crime tales is the unearthing of concealed and unfavorable facts about suspected malefactors. But the mother-son duo who write under the nom de pl... -
A Test of Wills - Charles Todd
Amazon.com ReviewHaving just returned from France after World War I with a medal of honor and serious shell shock, Inspector Ian Rutledge struggles to settle back into his duties a... -
A Spectacle of Corruption - David Liss
Amazon.com Review"I sentence you, Mr. Weaver, to be hanged for the most horrible crime of murder." Hearing that judicial decree, Benjamin Weaver--former pugilist, current "thief-ta... -
A Singular Man - J. P. Donleavy
SUMMARY: Mysteriously rich and desperately lonely, George Smith appears to be under attack from all quarters. His former wife and four horrible children are suing to get his money,... -
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
SUMMARY:Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colorful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks? A carnival is a place for good family fun, ... -
A Question of Belief - Donna Leon
SUMMARY: As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, ho... -
A Pocket Full of Rye - Agatha Christie
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sippingtea in his “counting house” when he sufferedan agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection,the pockets of the dec... -
A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett
SUMMARY:A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his w... -
A Pale Horse - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The exemplary 10th Inspector Ian Rutledge historical whodunit (after A False Mirror) offers tight plotting and rich characterization amid und....