Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She...
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Author: Davis, LydiaSummary:Genre: Short stories -
Author: Beck, DerekSummary:
Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 but over a year earlier in April 1775. Now historian Derek Beck draws on previously...
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Author: Ruiz Zafón, CarlosSummary:It's wartime, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the...
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Author: Gage, LeightonSummary:As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and...
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Author: Majdalani, CharifSummary:A young military recruit crosses paths with a compatriot who has dismantled a palace in Tripoli and is transporting it across the continent on a camel caravan.
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Author: Picoult, JodiSummary:
This moving story of love and family is told through the eyes of five people: Jane Jones, her daughter Rebecca, and three very different men in their lives. After a watershed moment in their...
Genre: Road fiction, Domestic fiction -
Author: Maraniss, DavidSummary:
On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical...
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Author: McCarthy, CormacSummary:
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée...
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Author: Bolaño, RobertoSummary:Comprising short biographies about imaginary writers, this novel is an entirely original mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere.
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Author: Fogel, SusannaSummary:Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, Nuclear Family is a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Epistolary fiction -
Author: Grippando, JamesSummary:Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her...
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Author: Johnson, PaulSummary:
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson's lively, succinct biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores how his legacy endures today. In the rousing style he's famous for, celebrated historian...
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Author: Reid, AdamSummary:Moments after the inauguration of our 45th President, best friends Barack Obama and Joe Biden were escorted to a secret lab run by the world's greatest scientists. These scientists sent them back...
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Author: Bradley, Marion ZimmerSummary:
For Jeff Kerwin, Darkover meant home, the home he had left as a child, the home he had longed for through the many years. Yet, he was to be terribly disappointed when he finally returned. First he...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Bradley, Marion ZimmerSummary:
A novel from the Darkover series, about a man on his first mission to the planet. What he encounters when he leaves the space station is to determine the fate of every Terran stranded there.
Genre: Science fiction