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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 House at Riverton?
well-written and richly described a kitchen sink drama evocative and compelling well-written and nicely plottedFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Forgotten Garden comes a gorgeous novel set in England between World War I and World war II. Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey, it is the story of an aristocratic family, a house, a mysterious dea... More details on The House at Riverton
It was 1924 and I was at Riverton again. All the doors hung wide open, silk billowing in the summer breeze. An orchestra perched high on the hill beneath the ancient maple, violins lilting lazily in t...
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What do readers say about Sleepwalking Land?
an african odyssey wonderfully crafted, sometimes harrowing post-independence mid-civil war mozambique distinctively african way"On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp."-The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo
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What do readers say about House of Hollow?
intricate, lyrical, and intriguing grim, urban fairytale quality dark urban fantasy the beautiful coverA New York Times Bestseller! An Instant Indie Bestseller! A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are u... More details on House of Hollow
Grey’s fine, hook-shaped scar was still the first thing you noticed about her, followed by how achingly beautiful she was. The Vogue magazine—her third US cover in as many years—must have arrived in t...
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What do readers say about Child of the Morning?
hatshepsut, egypt’s female pharaoh it's just too good stories of ancient egypt slow one to readThirty-five centuries ago the sun had a daughter: Hatshepsut. Youngest daughter of the Pharaoh, she was a lithe and magical child. But when her older sister died, it became her duty to purify the dynasty's bloodline. She was to wed Thothmes, her fath... More details on Child of the Morning
Although the north wall of the schoolroom opened onto the garden, the prevailing summer wind did not blow between the dazzling white, color-splashed pillars. It was suffocatingly hot. The students sat...
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What do readers say about Bad Land?
evocative and compelling highly plausible and well-researched how they promoted settlement nonfictionSee 3 Book Recommendations like Bad Land
What do readers say about Deadly?
white knuckle adventure an empathy novella a dark dark series this is shortDeadly (An Empathy Novella) 18 only.
Normal is not something Ryan and Cereus have ever been, where's the fun in normal?
When Cereus's dreams follow her into the waking hours, she has to come to terms with the fact, Ryan is not the only monster in h... More details on Deadly
“Another bad dream?” His voice carries from a darker corner of the room where he would occasionally sit and watch me sleep. The shine from the window highlights his silhouette, and to anyone else it w...
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What do readers say about Ru?
moving and lyrical crystalline and evocative the emigrant experience a short autobiographical, novelWinner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Winner of 2015 Canada Reads Prize
Winner of Grand Prix littéraire Archambault
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What do readers say about Just Kids?
tender, eloquent, and sweet an overwritten memoir a deep friendship lyrical and evocativeWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet... More details on Just Kids
WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG, MY MOTHER TOOK ME FOR walks in Humboldt Park, along the edge of the Prairie River. I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates, of an old boathouse, a circular band ...
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What do readers say about The Poisonwood Bible?
lyrical & beautiful extremely subdues and subtle greatly layered and well-written southern gothic fictionThis story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that a... More details on The Poisonwood Bible
IMAGINE A RUIN so strange it must never have happened. First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark like muscular an...
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