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What do readers say about The Book of Monelle?
an enigmatic novella a wondrous little book exquisite and beautiful enchanting and haunting"The Book of Monelle" was the result of Schwob's intense emotional suffering over the loss of his love, a "girl of the streets" named Louise, whom he had befriended in 1891 and who succumbed to tuberculosis two years later.
Transforming her into the ... More details on The Book of Monelle
Bonaparte the killer, at eighteen years of age, met a young prostitute by the iron gates of the Palais-Royal. She was pale, and she shivered in the cold. But “I had to live,” she told him. Neither you...
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What do readers say about The Return of the Witch?
a real page turner not my style interesting plots and developments books with witches and magic in themPaula Brackston, the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter, returns with its sequel The Return of the Witch, another bewitching tale of love and magic, featuring her signature blend of gorgeous writing, a fabulous and intriguing h... More details on The Return of the Witch
Willow Cottage appeared pleasingly unchanged, looking so very much as it had the day I made it my home nearly six years before. February winds had brought abundant snow, so that the entire village was...
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What do readers say about Between Here and the Yellow Sea?
exquisite, poetic and beautiful collection of short stories bland and immature easy pleasure to readA debut collection of short fiction from this National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist. Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes — from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm — the stories in 'Between... More details on Between Here and the Yellow Sea
THEN THE CITY ENTERS ANOTHER TORPID AND SIMMERING May. Parents grimace while pulling their kids through the Museum of Westward Expansion, and barges moan down the Mississippi. Something erupted at the...
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What do readers say about Housekeeping?
gorgeous and lyrical poetically beautiful language poetic and often beautiful poetic introspective languageFrom the Orange Prize winning author of Home
Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.
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My name is Ruth. I grew up with my younger sister, Lucille, under the care of my grandmother, Mrs. Sylvia Foster, and when she died, of her sisters-in-law, Misses Lily and Nona Foster, and when they f...
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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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What do readers say about Lost Souls?
a vampire novel complex and very interesting eye opening book horror novelVampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears.
"A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve."-Booklist
At a club in Missing Mile, N.... More details on Lost Souls
The Thunderbird was huge. It always drove like a fucking monster, but tonight Steve felt as if he were piloting some great steamboat down a magic river, a river of shimmering asphalt banked by pine fo...
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What do readers say about Midnight's Children?
lyrical and clever playfulness and inventiveness a great masala film fantasical family historyThe iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to "a glittering novelist-one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling" (The New Yorker)
Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on Augu... More details on Midnight's Children
I was born in the city of Bombay … once upon a time. No, that won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The time...
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What do readers say about Exquisite Corpse?
tightly written and suspenseful wet and diseased a horrific car crash essentially gay serial-killer eroticaFrom the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a "guidebook to hell."
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After... More details on Exquisite Corpse
Sometimes a man grows tired of carrying everything the world heaps upon his head. The shoulders sag, the spine bows cruelly, the muscles tremble with weariness. Hope of relief begins to die. And the m...
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What do readers say about East of Eden?
captivating and thought-provoking beautiful and flawless a true american epic absorbing to followA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set ... More details on East of Eden
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked an...
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What do readers say about American Psycho?
an unreliable narrator well written and compelling sick torture pornography tongue and cheek styleINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.
Patrick Bateman moves among the young ... More details on American Psycho
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat o...
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