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The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Review
"A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood."--Salman Rushdie, The New Republic"A vast, fant...
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Veracity
Mark Lavorato
About the Author
Mark Lavorato is a street photographer, musician, poet, and novelist. He was raised on the Canadian prai...
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Criticism and Truth
Roland Barthes
From Library Journal
Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's Sur Racine , this polemic answers many of the ...
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The Book of Salt
Monique Truong
From Publishers Weekly
A mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household and the slow revel...
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Beautiful Children
Charles Bock
From Publishers Weekly
A wide-ranging portrait of an almost mythically depraved Las Vegas, this sweeping debut takes in e...
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The Feast of the Goat
Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa
Amazon.com Review
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists...
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An Imaginary Life
David Malouf
From the Inside Flap
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rom...
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The Four Corners of the Sky
Michael Malone
From Publishers Weekly
A daredevil pilot heads out on a wild goose chase and learns to slow down and enjoy life in Malone...
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Some Kind of Normal
Heidi Willis
Review
In Some Kind of Normal, author Heidi Willis explores the strength of the human spirit and a family in crisis. As t...
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In the ''Stranger People's'' country
Charles Egbert Craddock, Marjorie Pryse, Mary Noailles Murfree
Review
"A positive addition to the available in-print books about the region because Murfree was the first writer to publ...
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Only Yesterday
Barbara Harshav, Benjamin Harshav, S. Y. Agnon
From Publishers Weekly
Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl...
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Shakespeare (DK Eyewitness Books)
Peter Chrisp
Amazon.com Review
William Shakespeare was born into an utterly fascinating time and place: 16th-century England. Eyewit...
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The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith
Amazon.com Review
When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrest...
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The Eden Hunter
Skip Horack
From Publishers Weekly
Louisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, ...
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The Still Point
Amy Sackville
From Publishers Weekly
Sackville drifts seamlessly between past and present in her beautifully written debut, the split s...
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Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
Alexander Mccall Smith
From Publishers Weekly
Smith, author of the bestselling The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and some 50 other books, nimbl...
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Cockroach
Rawi Hage
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. With a surprising degree of humor, Hage's second novel (after IMPAC Dublin-winner ...
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Wild Ginger
Anchee Min
From Publishers Weekly
A happy ending is relative to what precedes it in this case, it stands in contrast to a horrific, ...
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The Last Empress
Anchee Min
Amazon.com Review
Power is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous ...
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Until the Real Thing Comes Along
Elizabeth Berg
Amazon.com Review
For the protagonist of Elizabeth Berg's Until the Real Thing Comes Along, the biological clock is tick...
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The Pilot's Wife
Anita Shreve
Amazon.com Review
With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed , Anita Shreve now offers a skillfully crafted...
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Light on Snow
Anita Shreve
From Publishers Weekly
An after-school stroll leads to a life-altering event for widower Robert Dillon and his 12-year-ol...
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The Pleasure Seekers
Tishani Doshi
From Publishers Weekly
Not all that much pleasure is sought (or found) by the characters of Doshi's competently written i...
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Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Amazon.com Review
The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's...
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Even the Dogs
Jon Mcgregor
From Publishers Weekly
This mercifully short third novel from McGregor (If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things) is told fr...
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The Tragedy of Arthur
Arthur Phillips
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. A long-lost Shakespeare play surfaces in Phillips's wily fifth novel, a sublime fa...
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Crossing the River
Caryl Phillips
From Publishers Weekly
Phillips's depiction of the African diaspora, spanning four eras in African American history, was ...
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Foreign Affairs
Alison Lurie
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
1 As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myse...
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