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It is 1946 and the old families of the Temperleys and the Chancellors have been neighbours on the South Coast of England for many years. Now the younger gen...

Tv Documentary Producer And Single Mother Melanie Adams Falls In Love With Internationally Famous Heart Surgeon Peter Hallam, And Together They Struggle To ...

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family i...

With a title like "Glue", it would seem reasonable to assume that Irvine Welsh's new novel is a profound reflection upon the pitfalls of solvent abuse. In f...

A Collection Of African-american Folklore, Oral Histories, Sermons, And Songs, Dating Back To The Time Of Slavery. John And The Frog -- Witness Of The Johns...

New York Times Bestselling Author And Queen Of The Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews Delivers Her Next Blockbuster, Hello Summer. Conley Hawkins Left Her Family'...

Here are all of Grace Paley's classic stories collected in one volume. Her quirky, boisterous characters and rich use of language have won her readers' he...

-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts);...

Sixteen-year-old Miles' First Year At Culver Creek Preparatory School In Alabama Includes Good Friends And Great Pranks, But Is Defined By The Search For An...

She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying d...

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat m...

Weil die schöne Marketa eine politische Schulung einem Wochenende in trauter Zweisamkeit mit Ludvik vorzieht, schreibt er ihr eine ironische Postkarte, die...

Heirs of Montana book 2, the sequel to the bestselling Land of My Heart. With the love of her life missing in the Montana wilderness, a young woman must ma...

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The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgu...

The struggle to build an authentic identity lies at the heart of Astrid's life as a foster child in Los Angeles after her poet mother, who has kept Astrid i...

By Viktor Suvorov. Includes Index.Categories: Engineering & Transportation EngineeringMilitary Technology

A Novel Exploring Human Relations. Its Hero Is A Hungarian Writer Who Lives Through The 1956 Hungarian Revolution And Has A Homosexual Affair With A German ...

In April Of 1994, Nearly A Million Rwandans Were Killed In What Would Prove To Be One Of The Swiftest, Most Terrifying Killing Sprees Of The 20th Century. I...

Leading Israeli novelist Sami Michael shares his gift for navigating the cultural conflicts in modern Israel with A Trumpet in the Wadi, a novel that trans...

Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets offamilies ...

Samarcande, c'est la Perse d'Omar Khayyam, poète du vin, libre penseur, astronome de génie, mais aussi celle de Hassan Sabbah, fondateur de l'ordre des As...

Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea—an aband...

Returning as a successful artist to the home of the family that adopted him, Seth Quinn is intrigued by independent newcomer Dru Whitcomb Banks, who is hesi...

as Further Evidence Of His Family's Bad Fortune, Which They Attribute To A Curse On A Distant Relative, Stanley Yelnats Is Sent To A Hellish Boys' Juvenile...

This Delirious 1925 Jazz Age Classic Introduced Readers To Lorelei Lee, The Small-town Girl From Little Rock, Who Has Become One Of The Most Timeless Charac...

Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography o...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Pulitzer Prize When The Stories of John Cheever was originally published, it became an immediate national bestseller and...

Among Rumors Of Iraq's Imminent Invasion, Time Is Running Out For Clara And Her Husband Ahmed Who Have Put Together A Ragtag Team Of Renegade Archaeologists...

eddy Knows How To Play The Game Of Love. he Has All The Tricks Down Cold, And His Favorite Girls Are The Ones With Cherry Lipstick And Long Legs In Fishne...

Having Paid Dearly For Ignoring Elua's Edict To Love As Thou Wilt, Imriel And Sidonie Have Finally Come Forward To Publicly Confess Their Love For Each Othe...

an Incredible Young Adult Novel About How A Young Girl S Love Of Books Helps A Community Survive World War Ii And The Holocaust. it S Just A Small Story R...

“Riveting . . . While I Was Gone [celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature.” –The New York Times “Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betray...

Esta arrolladora novela cuenta dos milenios de historia de una de las ciudades más fascinantes del mundo: Londres. Desde la fundación de un pequeño asentam...

Three Socially Mismatched Teens Are Trapped In The School Darkroom During A Violent Earthquake. Despite Being Raised In The Same Church, They Consider Thems...

During a 1926 vacation at an idyllic Brittany resort, tourists meet and form friendships that will last a lifetime, but their tranquility is undermined by t...

The Year Is 63 Bc. In An Age Of Political Titans, Cicero Stands Supreme: The Senior Consul Of The Roman Republic. But Jealous Rivals Are Determined To Destr...

Disillusioned by romance and love since her bitter divorce, single mother Molly Willoughby has steered away from personal relationships and abandoned her dr...

London, 1958. In the smoky jazz clubs of Soho and the coffee bars of Notting Hill the young and the restless - the absolute beginners - are forging a new ca...

Published in 1932, this spy thriller unfolds aboard the Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murd...

The Modern Classic About A Dedicated Teacher In A Tough London School Who Slowly And Painfully Breaks Down The Barriers Of Racial Prejudice. It Is The Stor...

elaina Mccord Wants To Find A Killer. But He’s Already Found Her. elaina Mccord’s Dream Of Being An Fbi Profiler Is Threatened By Her Very First Case—inv...

Set in 1935 England, this New York Times bestseller is enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, England and class, making it a profound—an...

In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old High School Student Peter Houghton Has Endured Years Of Verbal And Physical Abuse At The Hands Of Classmates. His Be...

Il A 15 Ans Et S'appelle Christopher Boone. Il Excelle En Mathématiques Et Adore Sherlock Holmes. Il Aime Les Diagrammes, Les Listes, La Vérité. Il Ne Su...

Alejandro Sandy Stern Returns Home To Find His Wife Murdered And Himself Caught In A Maelstrom Of Hidden Crimes, Shocking Secrets, And Warring Passions. Sco...

Ever since her engagement, the strangest thing has been happening to Marian McAlpin: she can't eat. First meat. Then eggs, vegetables, cake, pumpkin seedsâ€...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Tau...