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What do readers say about The Way of Kings?
lots of story lines inter woven throughout multi book epic the characters were interesting high fantasyFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep acro... More details on The Way of Kings
“You’ve killed me. Bastards, you’ve killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!” —Collected on the fifth day of the week Chach of the month Betab of the year 1171, ten seconds before death. Subject ...
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What do readers say about Mr. Mercedes?
suspenseful and thrilling straight-forward crime novel fast moving and absorbing creepy crime thrillerNow an AT & T Audience Original Series
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
#1 New York Times bestseller! In a high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowin... More details on Mr. Mercedes
Hodges walks out of the kitchen with a can of beer in his hand, sits down in the La-Z-Boy, and puts the can down on the little table to his left, next to the gun. It’s a .38 Smith & Wesson M&P revolve...
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What do readers say about The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
smartly written interesting and moving one of the best books ever funny, sad, touchingTHE BESTSELLING NOVEL
THE AWARD-WINNING LONDON THEATRICAL SENSATION
NOW ON BROADWAY
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THEN THE POLICE arrived. I like the police. They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing. There was a policewoman and a policeman. The policewoman had a little hole in h...
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What do readers say about The Corrections?
sizable slices of narrative a mid-western family long and tedious fantastically written book#1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
"A spellbinding novel" (People) from the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections is a comic, tragic epic of worlds colliding: an old-fashioned world of civic virtue a... More details on The Corrections
The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: something terrible was going to happen. The sun low in the sky, a minor light, a cooling star. Gust after gust of disorde...
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What do readers say about Girl in Translation?
immigrant coming-of-age story modern-day immigration and poverty engrossing and moving immigration and exploitationFrom the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
A sheet of melting ice lay over the concrete. I watched my rubber boots closely, the way the toes slid on the ice, the way the heels splintered it. Ice was something I had known only in the form of sm...
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What do readers say about The Thief?
old-school fantasy adventure newbery honor book mature fantasy writing first person narrationALA Notable Children's Book
Newbery Honor Book
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
Bulletin Blue Ribbon (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books) ... More details on The Thief
I DIDN’T KNOW HOW LONG I had been in the king’s prison. The days were all the same, except that as each one passed, I was dirtier than before. Every morning the light in the cell changed from the wave...
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What do readers say about The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet?
descriptive and rich meticulous, compelling novel a regular novel an historical novelBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker P... More details on The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
There is no pulse. 'The baby is dead,' Orito answers, in the same language, 'and the mother will die soon, if the child is not delivered.' She places her fingertips on Kawasemi's distended belly and p...
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What do readers say about Half Broke Horses?
fact based novel first person narrative first person voice crisply and vividly writtenHalf Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.
"Those old cows knew trouble was... More details on Half Broke Horses
WE TRAVELED THREE DAYSto reach the Casey Ranch, which Dad, with his love of phonetic spelling, insisted should officially be renamed the KC Ranch. It was in the middle of the Hondo Valley, south of th...
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What do readers say about Yakuza Moon?
very straight-forward and raw her teenage delinquency it's pretty damn terrific dark and realYakuza Moon is the shocking, yet intensely moving memoir of 37-yearold Shoko Tendo, who grew up the daughter of a yakuza boss. Tendo lived her life in luxury until the age of six, when her father was sent to prison, and her family fell into terrible... More details on Yakuza Moon
I was born in the winter of 1968, a yakuza’s daughter. I was the third child of four born to my father Hiroyasu and mother Satomi. My brother Daiki was twelve years older, and then came my sister Maki...
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What do readers say about The Giver of Stars?
very straight forward lots of dialogue a historical novel strong relationships among womenTHE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER
A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK
A spellbinding story of love, community and the power of reading from the author of The Last Letter from Your Lover, now a major motion picture, and Me Before You, the worldwide b... More details on The Giver of Stars
It was, everyone agreed, fanning themselves outside the store or passing in the shade of the eucalyptus trees, unseasonably warm for September. The meeting hall at Baileyville was thick with the smell...
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