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What do readers say about Interview with the Vampire?
very lush and literary book club pick smoothly flowing prose brooding and angstyThe spellbinding classic that started it all from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
"A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fas... More details on Interview with the Vampire
ISEE…” said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. For a long time he stood there against the dim light from Divisadero Street and the passing beams of traf...
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What do readers say about The Secret Swan?
angsty and conflicted smoothly flowing prose a historical romance a must readShana Abé has captured the imagination of readers everywhere with her superbly sensual tales of forbidden love. Now she weaves the exquisite story of a man and woman torn apart by fate - who realize years later that love's second bloom is the one tha... More details on The Secret Swan
Tristan stared down at it in some surprise, speckles of rust dotting his skin like dried blood. The soldered seam meant to hold it in place had corroded through; he was damned lucky he hadn’t cut hims...
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What do readers say about One Hundred Years of Solitude?
exotic, epical style fantastic and abusurdist elements originality and creativity latin american magic realism"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is pr... More details on One Hundred Years of Solitude
MANY YEARS LATER, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. At that time Macondo was a village of twenty ...
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What do readers say about Gathering of Waters?
drop-dead gorgeous writing amazing and drop-dead gorgeous drop dead gorgeous. drop-dead gorgeous and fascinatingOne of Essence's Best Books of the Decade
A New York Times Notable Book of 2012
Gathering of Waters is a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award
Gathering of Waters was named a finalist for a 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award ... More details on Gathering of Waters
For a time I lived as a beating heart, another life found me swimming upstream toward a home nestled in my memory. Once I was a language that died. I have been sunlight, snowdrifts, and sweet babies’ ...
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What do readers say about Ulysses?
clear and entertaining passages stream of consciousness dense and complicated best. novel. everUlysses' takes place in a single day, 16 June 1904, also known as Bloomsday, it sets the characters and incidents of the Odyssey of Homer in modern Dublin and represents Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelope and Telemachus in the characters of Leopold Bloom, ... More details on Ulysses
STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild ...
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What do readers say about Cloud Atlas?
fantastic and novel predictable and lame with a master's hand pitch-perfect in every styleBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks
Now a major motion picture
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell... More details on Cloud Atlas
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. Through rotting kelp, sea cocoa-nuts & bamboo, the tracks led me to their maker, a White man, his trowzers ...
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What do readers say about Under the Volcano?
dense and delicious prose 13th century italian stream of consciousness rambling rambling, abstract, fatalisticOne of the twentieth century's great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.
It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In th... More details on Under the Volcano
Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus. Overlooking one of these valleys, which is dominated by two volcanoes, lie...
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What do readers say about Where the Wild Things Are?
great descriptive language creative book of fantasy flow and pace simple but facinatingMax is the hero of this beloved children's classic in which he makes mischief, sails away, tames the wild things and returns home for supper.... More details on Where the Wild Things Are
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What do readers say about Matched?
clear and precise designated a partner a three-way dramatic romance ya dystopian novelCassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate...... More details on Matched
ow that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? My wings aren’t white or feathered; they’re green, made of green silk, which shudders in the wind and bends when I move—...
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What do readers say about Blindness?
seeing only white scatological and pornographic tragedy and humanity the biblical-like narrationA stunningly powerful novel of humanity's will to survive against all odds during an epidemic by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
An International Bestseller
"This is a shattering work by a literary master."-Boston Globe
A city is hit by... More details on Blindness
The amber light came on. Two of the cars ahead accelerated before the red light appeared. At the pedestrian crossing the sign of a green man lit up. The people who were waiting began to cross the road...
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