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Consider the Lobster_ And Other - David Foster Wallace
SUMMARY: Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David F... -
Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
SUMMARY:"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, plane... -
Consciousness Explained - Daniel C. Dennett
Amazon.com ReviewConsciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience--the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes--that ... -
Conquistadora - Esmeralda Santiago
A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican.Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the ex... -
Congo - Michael Crichton
SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a mat... -
Confederates in the Attic - Tony Horwitz
National Bestseller When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains... -
Company - Max Barry
From Publishers WeeklyWith broad strokes, Barry once again satirizes corporate America in his third caustic novel (after Jennifer Government). This time, he takes aim at the peren.... -
Commuters_ A Novel - Emily Gray Tedrowe
SUMMARY: At seventy-eight, Winnie Easton has finally found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy Chicago businessman who has moved to the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New Yo... -
Common Sense, the Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
SUMMARY: Thomas Paine's book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and pass... -
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Enormously popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for th...