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Why Read the Classics_ - Italo Calvino
Amazon.com ReviewWhy read Italo Calvino's book on the classics? Because it passes his own test for what a classic is, and its brisk prose can blast your concept of the word clean o... -
Where Yesterday Lives - Karen Kingsbury
At thirty-one, Ellen Barrett has already won a Pulitzer prize. Sadly, though, her skill as a journalist far surpasses her ability to sort out her troubled past. When she returns to... -
The Search for the Red Dragon - James A. Owen
FromOwen’s second entry in the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series surpasses his first, delivering a more cohesive story while sustaining the intricate connections amo... -
The Masque of Africa_ Glimpses - V. S. Naipaul
SUMMARY: Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, t... -
The Great Game_ On Secret Servi - Peter Hopkirk
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those eng... -
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
SUMMARY:Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part... -
The Buck Passes Flynn - Gregory Mcdonald
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The Annotated Milton_ Complete - John Milton;Burton Raffel
Product Description Affordable, compact, and authoritative, this one-volume edition of <b>The Annotated Milton</b> encompasses the monumental sweep of John Milton’s poetry. Here ... -
Palestine Inside Out - Saree Makdisi
Palestine Inside Out Sheds Light on the most important—but also the least visible—aspects of life under occupation: the permits, passes, curfews, closures, “sterile roads,” and “se... -
Everything Here Is the Best Thi - Justin Taylor
Each story in this crystalline, spare, oddly moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor's characters are guided by delusions and misapprehensions that quickly bring them to impass...