A New York Times-bestselling author's "superbly reported" account of the dismantling of the world's largest corporation (The Washington Post). Written by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
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Author: Coll, SteveSummary:
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Author: GOLDSMITH, Joel SSummary:
In this book the author discusses the concept of God within us. He argues that only by yielding up the personal 'I' and welcoming in the divine 'I' can we achieve spiritual renewal.
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Author: COELHO, PauloSummary:
One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified and fascinated by her...
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Author: Bissoondath, NeilSummary:
This beautiful novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of A Casual Brutality and The Innocence of Age, joins politics and love in a powerful story set in both the...
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Author: Long, William StuartSummary:
The 12th volume in the author's "Australians" series, this continues the story of the pioneers who carved out a life for themselves in the newly-formed colonies of Australia and New Zealand.
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Author: Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter. But has the...
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Author: Bolaño, RobertoSummary:
Comprising short biographies about imaginary writers, this novel is an entirely original mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere.
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Author: HARRISON, KathrynSummary:
In this extraordinary memoir, one of the best young writers in America today transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between...
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Author: STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Even as a child, Gabriella Harrison's only escape is through the stories she writes. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world.
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Author: Hautzig, Esther RudominSummary:
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of...
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Author: Holdstock, PaulineSummary:
A feral girl roams the dense forests of nineteenth-century France. In the village of Freyzus, she is chased by suspicious townspeople to the edge of a gorge, where she jumps and disappears,...
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Author: L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
A young British bride is caught up in her new family's complicated history in this atmospheric novel set in the American South after the Civil War. When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron...
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Author: Keyes, GregSummary:
A princess and a warrior battle deities in this "ambitious fantasy series ... full of ghosts, gods, magic, and mischief" from a New York Times-bestselling author (Kirkus Reviews). Weaving a "...
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Author: Stratford, JordanSummary:
"Debut author Jordan Stratford imagines an alternate 1826, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret...
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Author: Vinton, VictoriaSummary:
Young Rudyard Kipling, privileged son of a well-connected British family, lives a life of luxury in Bombay, India. But when he is separated from his family and sent to live in a desolate foster...