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Sophie's World_ A Novel About the History of Philosophy - Jostein Gaarder
Amazon.com ReviewWanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has ... -
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
From Publishers WeeklyKay ( The Fionavar Tapestry ) brings to life a layered, pragmatic world of magic and difficult choices, where brutality and beauty coexist. Eight of the nine ... -
Sophie's World_ A Novel About t - Jostein Gaarder
Amazon.com ReviewWanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has ... -
Shame the devil_ a novel - George P. Pelecanos
Amazon.com ReviewPenzler Pick, February 2000: Just as Robert B. Parker and Dennis Lehane have made Boston their own and Los Angeles has been the distinct province of a lin... -
Scenes from Provincial Life - J.M. Coetzee
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unc... -
Land's End_ A Walk in Provincet - Michael Cunningham
SUMMARY: In this celebration of one of America's oldest towns (incorporated in 1720), Michael Cunningham, author of the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, brings us Pr... -
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... -
French Provincial Cooking - Elizabeth David
It is difficult to think of any home that can do without Elizabeth David's "French Provincial Cooking" ...One could cook for a lifetime on the book alone' - "Observer". Elizabeth D... -
Deja Dead - Kathy Reichs
SUMMARY: It's June in Montreal, and Tempe, who has left a shaky marriage back home in North Carolina to take on the challenging assignment of director of forensic anthropology for ... -
A River in the Sky - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY: 1910. Having brought Egypt firmly under her thumb, Amelia Peabody turns her attention to a harder challenge: Palestine, a province of the crumbling, corrupt Ottoman Empire...