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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1891 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, two young women stand at a crossroads. Both are protégées of the same mentor, Copper Brown, yet they couldnâ...

Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its symboli...

'If in the future, life itself ever had to be experienced through art - let's say because of a necessary curfew to avoid the effects of radiation or polluti...

Thirty years have passed since Greta left Marchmont Hall, a grand and beautiful house nestled in the hills of rural Monmouthshire. But when she returns to t...

Colleen McCullough's sweeping saga of dreams, struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback has enthralled readers the world over....

The Magus is the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching assignment on a remote Greek island. There his friendship with a local...

Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great e...

Old Mr. Rock Lives In A Cottage, Given To Him By The State In Gratitude For His Scientific Work, With His Granddaughter Elizabeth. His Household Includes Da...

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From top-selling author Maureen Johnson comes the second book in the trilogy about a girl and her hotel. Ever since Mrs. Amberson, the former-aspiring-act...

Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security'. Jane Austen's sardonic humour lays...

First published in 1960, Pomp and Circumstance, Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. 'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is, with a R...

In His Final Semester Of Law School, Rudy Baylor Finds Himself Taking On One Of The Most Powerful, Corrupt, And Ruthless Companies In America -- And Exposin...

One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in the novel Julia Spencer-Fleming's readers have been clamoring for.Police ...

When The Daughter Of A Comic Book Artist Claims She Has Been Raped At A Party And Her Friends Turn Against Her, She Runs Away To Alaska And Her Father Must ...

The Disappeared is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. It is the story of Stephen, a teacher whose love for the pupil who sha...

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming the friendship of a lifetime, for readers of The Unlikel...

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, co...