This National Book Award winning novel traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both his own...
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Author: Bellow, SaulSummary:Genre: Classic fiction -
Author: Coll, SteveSummary:This 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning work details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and America's efforts to find and...
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Author: Cockburn, AndrewSummary:Assassination by drone is a subject of enduring fascination, yet few understand why it has become our principal way of waging war. Kill Chain takes the listener inside the world of national...
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Author: Kempt, Malcolm; Flaherty,WilliamSummary:This book provides easy-to-follow directions for completing a successful aglu hunt. An aglu is a seal breathing hole found on the sea ice, and aglu hunting is a time-honoured traditional hunting...
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Author: Bellow, SaulSummary:In this collection of more than thirty essays originally published in the New York Times, Esquire, and the New Republic, Saul Bellow ranges fluidly across topics as various as the talents of...
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Author: Hoy, BenjaminSummary:
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United...
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Author: Engberg, KatrineSummary:
When fifteen-year-old Oscar Dreyer-Hoff disappears, the police assume he's simply a runaway--a typically overlooked middle child doing what teenagers do all around the world. But his frantic...
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Author: DiCamillo, KateSummary:
Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets...
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Author: Jin, Ha.Summary:
National Book Award-winner Ha Jin brings us a collection of stories that delve into the experiences of Chinese immigrants in America. All of Ha Jin's characters struggle in situations that...
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Author: Griffin, W.E.B.Summary:Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man...
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Author: Rankin, IanSummary:It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident...
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Author: Moloney, JamesSummary:A laugh-out-loud comedy about bad-hair days, a gorgeous boy, big bums, another gorgeous boy, and oldies with attitude. Rosie lives in the awful suburb of Prestwidge. Her grandfather's black...
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Author: Leather, StephenSummary:Dan "Spider" Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. But when a man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the...
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Author: Grey, ZaneSummary:Milt Dorn is a quiet man. He wasn't looking for trouble that day in the deep mountain forest, but trouble found him. Dorn overheard an ambitious rancher plotting with an outlaw to kidnap the...
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Author: Deaver, JefferySummary:
Lincoln Rhyme, a forensic consultant for the NYPD, and his detective partner, Amelia Sachs, take on a psychotic mastermind who uses data mining, the business of the twenty-first century, not only...