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Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "April is the cruelist month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." This is the first line of T. ... -
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in ... -
The Plague of Doves - Louise Erdrich
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Erdrich's 13th novel, a multigenerational tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance, finds its roots in the 1911 slaughter of a f... -
The Coke Machine_ The Dirty Tru - Michael Blanding
Review"Blanding roots his tale in the birth of the advertising era, and he is particularly effective in telling the story of how Coke fought to monopolize the sale of soft drinks t... -
Song of Slaves in the Desert - Alan Cheuse
SUMMARY:Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker's involvement in his family's rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to ... -
Rose in a Storm - Jon Katz
From Katz, best-selling author of the anecdotal Bedlam Farm books, returns to his fiction roots with this gently appealing tale of a sheepdog named Rose. Fully immersing himself in... -
Roots_ The Saga of an American - Alex Haley
SUMMARY:One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and c... -
Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby
SUMMARY: Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wa... -
Her Majesty's Spymaster - Stephen Budiansky
From Publishers WeeklyRising from humble roots, Sir Francis Walsingham is a model of a certain type of Elizabethan figure, thriving at an innovative court that preferred service by... -
Girls_ A Novel - Frederick Busch
Amazon.com ReviewFrederick Busch's 18th work of fiction, Girls, is a novel whose roots lie buried in an earlier short story. In "Ralph the Duck," Busch introduced Jack and Franny,....