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Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY: Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. G... -
Invasion - Dean Koontz
In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Five die. Heroic LAPD officer Jack McGarvey is badly wounded and lands in the ho... -
I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
Amazon.com ReviewIn this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independe... -
How I Killed Pluto and Why It H - Mike Brown
Amazon.com ReviewA Letter from Author Mike Brown My daughter Lilah, now five years old, is mad at me for killing Pluto. When I began a project 13 years ago to chart... -
Hate List - Jennifer Brown
SUMMARY: Five months ago, Valerie Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, opened fire on their school cafeteria. Shot trying to stop him, Valerie inadvertently saved the life of a classmate, bu... -
Gold Mountain Blues - Ling Zhang
In the epic storytelling tradition of Amy Tan and Jiang Rong comes Gold Mountain Blues, a rich saga chronicling the lives of five generations of a Chinese family from Guandong Prov... -
Gargantuan_ A Ruby Murphy Myste - Maggie Estep
From Publishers WeeklyFive separate narrators tell a sometimes muddled story involving race fixing, kidnapping and murder in Estep’s second Ruby Murphy mystery (after 2003’s Hex), ... -
Four Dukes and a Devil - Cathy Maxwell; Elaine Fox; Jean
SUMMARY: What do you do with three dukes' a dog named Duke' and a devil? You put them into an anthology! We′ve combined five of today′s bestselling and popular authors into one vol... -
Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unico - James Randi; Isaac Asimov
Synopsis:James Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist. But for the past thirty-five years of his professional life, he has also been active as an inv... -
Five Weeks in a Balloon - Jules Verne
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Geneva, Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">The first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredient...