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You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
Review"Headlong, heartsick and footsore....Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace....Nobody writes better than... -
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate - Karen Armstrong
From Publishers WeeklyThe prolific, well-informed, and passionate Armstrong (The Case for God) writes a somewhat different book this time out, stemming from her winning a ,000 priz... -
To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. œThe mountain path is the road of the dead, writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that tran... -
Things I Want My Daughters to K - Elizabeth Noble
How do you cope in a world without your mother?When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triu... -
The great lover - Jill Dawson
SUMMARY: Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request: a Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, ... -
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever
Amazon.com Review"These stories," writes Cheever in the preface to this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of stories, "seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the cit... -
The Pencil_ A History of Design - Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and ... -
The Little Prisoner_ A Memoir - Jane Elliott; Andrew Crofts
From Publishers WeeklyThe charts are full of stories of childhood abuse now, Elliott writes, and speculates that fans of childhood abuse literature want to be shocked at the start ... -
The Lady & Sons Savannah Countr - Paula H. Deen
From Publishers WeeklyIn his enthusiastic introduction, John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, writes: "Authentic Southern food is not about pretension." ... -
The Burning Skies - David J. Williams
Review_ "David J. Williams writes on the finest edge of science fiction. The Autumn Rain novels are driving and relentless, full of rock 'em sock 'em cyber warfare, space comman...