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What do readers say about The Bear and the Nightingale?
evocative and atmospheric a russian folktale evocative and beautiful dark, lyrical, mysticKatherine Arden's bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
"A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up."-Naomi Novik,... More details on The Bear and the Nightingale
It was late winter in northern Rus’, the air sullen with wet that was neither rain nor snow. The brilliant February landscape had given way to the dreary gray of March, and the household of Pyotr Vlad...
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What do readers say about The Lions of Al-Rassan?
strong, capable female characters tolerance and civilization loyalties, belief, and love far-reaching and engrossingIn a magnificent setting, hauntingly evocative of medieval Spain, The Loins of Al-Rassan is both a brilliant adventure and a deeply moving story of love, divided loyalties, and what happens to men and women when hardening beliefs begin to remake-or d... More details on The Lions of Al-Rassan
Back in the days before Jehane had begun her own practice, in that time when her father could still talk to her, and teach, he had offered those words to her over and again, speaking of the ruling Ash...
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What do readers say about Lolita?
love or hate book lack of vulgar words complexities and tensions thick and overly descriptiveAwe and exhiliration-along with heartbreak and mordant wit-abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lo... More details on Lolita
Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh whe...
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What do readers say about The Ministry of Utmost Happiness?
evocative and beautiful india, pakistan and kashmir the writing is beautiful the first partNational Bestseller
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post * The Boston Globe * Minneapolis Star Tribune * NPR * Newsday * The Guardian * Financial Times * The Christian Science Monitor
The Minis... More details on The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
She lived in the graveyard like a tree. At dawn she saw the crows off and welcomed the bats home. At dusk she did the opposite. Between shifts she conferred with the ghosts of vultures that loomed in ...
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What do readers say about The Other Side of the Bridge?
beautiful and uncomplicated story was interesting gentle but powerful coming of age bookFrom the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.
Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is to... More details on The Other Side of the Bridge
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What do readers say about Fabulous Beasts?
very gross, visceral writing horror that is unapologetic disturbing horror the story contains incest and rapeBritish Fantasy Award-winner: Best Short Fiction
Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma is a horror novelette about a strange woman living in luxury with her lover, but irrevocably tied to her childhood of deprivation and dark secrets in northwest England. ... More details on Fabulous Beasts
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What do readers say about The Girls?
grandiose descriptive prose coming of age novel disturbing, offensive and girtty murder and cultsTHE INSTANT BESTSELLER
An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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Cha ching, the slot machine in Connie’s garage went, like a cartoon, Peter’s features soaked in its rosy glow. He was eighteen, Connie’s older brother, and his forearms were the color of toast. His fr...
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What do readers say about The Tombs of Atuan?
terse and evocative artful and beautiful almost entirely female dominated a short novelOne of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time
The Newbery Honor-winning second novel in the renowned Earthsea series from Ursula K. LeGuin gets a beautiful new repackage.
In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high pries... More details on The Tombs of Atuan
ONE HIGH HORN SHRILLED AND ceased. The silence that followed was shaken only by the sound of many footsteps keeping time with a drum struck softly at a slow heart-pace. Through cracks in the roof of t...
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What do readers say about Lab Girl?
down to earth comical vivid and impressionistic a very personal memoir plants and flowersNational Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A New York Times Notable Book
Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant li... More details on Lab Girl
THERE IS NOTHING in the world more perfect than a slide rule. Its burnished aluminum feels cool against your lips, and if you hold it level to the light you can see God’s most perfect right angle in e...
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What do readers say about The Night Circus?
magical circus exhibitions almost dreamlike quality style over substance non-linear plot lineThe circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at Dawn
As dusk shifts to twili... More details on The Night Circus
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also t...
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