Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to...
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Author: Helprin, MarkSummary:Genre: General fiction
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Author: Donohue, KeithSummary:
When Kay fears someone is following her home, she takes shelter inside a toy shop and is suddenly transformed into a puppet. So begins a dual odyssey of a husband determined to find his wife and...
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Author: Doctorow, CorySummary:
Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant...
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Author: Repino, RobertSummary:
In the aftermath of the War With No Name, Shelba the dog and Mort(e) are once again thrown into the chaos as a slew of nefarious and dangerous characters threaten the fragile peace of the land....
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Author: Niven, LarrySummary:
Detective-Lieutenant Gene Trimble faces an increasing number of bizarre suicides in a world struggling to come to terms with its place in a multiverse of different timelines, where every decision...
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Author: Niven, LarrySummary:
How would you spend your last night on Earth? When the moon suddenly starts shining brighter, Stan and Leslie realize the sun must have gone nova, and they only have a few hours until the earth...
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Author: Marlantes, KarlSummary:
A young marine in Vietnam has big ambitions to command a company, but two other soldiers stand in his way. Then, as he experiences the cost of combat, he begins to see the terrible results of his...
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Author: Skyhorse, BrandoSummary:
When he was three, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his Mexican father. His mother saw no reason for her son to live his life as a Mexican just because he started out as one. The life of "...
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Author: Powers, TimSummary:
When Brendan Doyle is flown from America to London to give a lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, little does he expect that he will soon be traveling through time and meeting the poet himself. But...
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Author: Whitman, WaltSummary:
Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC. During that time, he filled notebooks with "impromptu jottings" that became...
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Author: Lightman, Alan P.Summary:
Alan Lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by discoveries in science, focusing on the human condition and the needs of mankind. He suggests that, perhaps, what we see...
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Author: Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
History teaches us that a third of Europe's population was destroyed by the Black Death. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead? Robinson rewrites history and...
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Author: Beagle, Peter S.Summary:
Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring...
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Author: Dando-Collins, StephenSummary:
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history and one shrouded in mystery. Stephen Dando-Collins sorts out the puzzles as he recaptures the drama of Caesar's...
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Author: Norman, Howard A.Summary:
Elizabeth Church has been murdered, but her husband, Sam Lattimore, still sees her. In fact, he holds conversations with her almost every evening and watches her line up books on a beach. What at...