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What do readers say about A Farewell to Arms?
war cannot last forever emotionally draining novel tense and tight clean, sparse writingBy turns romantic and harshly realistic, Hemingway's story of a tragic romance set against the brutality and confusion of World War I cemented his fame as a stylist and as a writer of extraordinary literary power. A volunteer ambulance driver and a b... More details on A Farewell to Arms
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in ...
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What do readers say about One Summer?
masterful story telling well written and researched humorous and clever smooth entertaining proseA Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book
A GoodReads Reader's Choice
The summer of 1927 began with Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Babe Ruth was closing in on the home run record. In Newark, New Jersey, Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly sat atop ... More details on One Summer
TEN DAYS BEFORE he became so famous that crowds would form around any building that contained him and waiters would fight over a corncob left on his dinner plate, no one had heard of Charles Lindbergh...
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What do readers say about A Constellation of Vital Phenomena?
graceful and beautiful free-floating at times half-sad, half-happy ending the chechen conflictNew York Times Notable Book of the Year
In a small rural village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as Russian soldiers abduct her father in the middle of the night and then set fire to her home. When their lifelong neighbor Akh... More details on A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
ON THE MORNING after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones. While the girl dressed, Akhmed, who hadn’t slept at all, paced outside the bedroom door...
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What do readers say about Still Life with Bread Crumbs?
creative and interesting clear and beautiful a quiet and enjoyable brilliantly written, powerfully observedNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A superb love story from Anna Quindlen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rise and Shine, Blessings, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a n... More details on Still Life with Bread Crumbs
Rebecca had printed out the cross pictures, which looked better and better to her each time she worked with them, and she had split a tuna melt with the dog, whom she was embarrassed to admit she call...
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What do readers say about Red Sparrow?
masterful story telling complex, nuanced, intricate somewhat preposterous, somewhat clunky solid and interesting writingNow a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton! From the New York Times bestselling author and veteran CIA officer Jason Matthews comes the electrifying modern spy thriller Red Sparrow. In contemporary Russia, state intellige... More details on Red Sparrow
Twelve hours into his SDR Nathaniel Nash was numb from the waist down. His feet and legs were wooden on the cobblestones of the Moscow side street. It had long since gotten dark as Nate ran the survei...
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What do readers say about The Red Queen?
suspenseful historical fiction masterful story telling first person narration in the first personThe inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous allian... More details on The Red Queen
The light of the open sky is brilliant after the darkness of the inner rooms. I blink and hear the roar of many voices. But this is not my army calling for me, this whisper growing to a rumble is not ...
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What do readers say about Toxic Desire?
porn with plot trashy space smut love beats war masterful story tellingA scifi alien romance with fated mates on an aphrodisiac planet
I've crash landed on a sex planet with my worst enemy.
He's a brooding, gold alien-a commander who destroyed my ship and half my crew. I should want to kill him. But everything on this p... More details on Toxic Desire
I’m slammed against the wall, and I squeeze my leg up between our bodies before he crushes me. And when I say crush me, I don’t mean in a sexy way. I mean he will literally pound my face in or drive a...
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What do readers say about The Serpent and the Wings of Night?
beautiful and descriptive nothing is sharper masterful story telling extraordinary written charactersHuman or vampire, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always - always - guard your heart.
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance... More details on The Serpent and the Wings of Night
I pressed to the wall, the dagger clenched tight in my hands. The night was warm, the kind when the sun’s heat clung to the steamy humidity of the air long after sunset. The smell hung in a thick, rot...
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What do readers say about The Master and Margarita?
dry and witty bizarre and confused long-winded and clunky writing vapid and dullSuppressed in the Soviet Union for twenty-six years, Mikhail Bulgakov's masterpiece is an ironic parable of power and its corruption, good and evil, and human frailty and the strength of love. Featuring Satan, accompanied by a retinue that includes t... More details on The Master and Margarita
At the hour of sunset, on a hot spring day, two citizens appeared in the Patriarchs’ Ponds Park. One, about forty, in a gray summer suit, was short, plump, dark-haired and partly bald. He carried his ...
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What do readers say about The Alchemist?
interesting and thought provoking beautiful prose and artwork international bestselling phenomenon very message orientedAn international bestseller
Over 80 million copies sold worldwide
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 pick
Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling mi... More details on The Alchemist
I REMEMBER RECEIVING A LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN publisher Harper Collins that said that: “reading The Alchemist was like getting up at dawn and seeing the sun rise while the rest of the world still sl...
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