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After the Funeral - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:After the reading of a will at a Victorian mansion, the sister of the deceased patriarch suspects he met with foul play. But before long, Cora is banished from the f... -
After Rain - William Trevor
Amazon.com ReviewAfter Rain consists of 12 short stories of love and disillusion by one of the current masters of fiction, William Trevor. Among the stories are "The Piano Tuner's.... -
Act of Will - A. J. Hartley
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As 18-year-old orphaned actor Will Hawthorne explains early on in this clever page-turner, I don't want you thinking you're going to get a ... -
Act of Passion - Georges Simenon; Louise Varese;
Review“Open any of his major novels: at once, a magic takes effect. From the first paragraph, you are gripped as if by the jaws of a steel trap that will not release its hold until... -
Across the Wall - Garth Nix
The collected short stories of Garth Nix, including a novella which follows on from the enthralling Old Kingdom fantasy adventures of Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen. Nicholas Sayre w... -
Acceptable Loss_ A William Monk - Anne Perry
“Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil,” The New York Times Book Review once declared, “and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes p... -
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
"Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll abs... -
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Amazon.com ReviewWill Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living ... -
A Warrior's Life_ A Biography o - Fernando Morais
SUMMARY: Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans wil... -
A Touch of Death - Charles Williams
SUMMARY: While searching for $120,000 in stolen money, Lee Scarborough falls in with a ruthless femme fatale whose schemes threaten to destroy his life in this long-out-of-print cl...