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The Truth-Teller's Lie (Paperback)
Having had a traumatic experience with a psychopath three years earlier, Naomi Jenkins senses trouble when the man she is having an affair with, Robert, goes missing, but the police are not convinced and the man's wife insists he is not gone, so …
The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai (Hardcover)
Injured by a gas explosion that renders him incapable of speaking Chinese, Shanghai businessman Li Jing struggles to communicate using faltering English phrases learned during his childhood years in Virginia and finds his marriage strained by a …
Peter and Rebecca Harris have settled into a comfortable mid-life--with their careers as an art dealer and editor, respectively, blossoming and their daughter in college--until Rebecca's brother with a history of drug problems shows up and makes …
The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, …
On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.On the …
The Long Road Home (Paperback)
Recovering from the shock of her husband's suicide and trying to deal with his debts, Nora MacKenzie seeks peace on a small farm in Vermont, until a handsome farmhand shows up and shakes her to her very core. Reprint.Book DetailsISBN: …
Book DetailsISBN: 9780307740991Author: Kazuo IshiguroPublisher: Random House IncDate Published: August 31, 2010Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.227 kgDimensions: 13.34 x 20.32 x 1.91 cmFree Delivery on BooksThis book will be delivered for free. …
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (Paperback)
Book DetailsISBN: 9780143118572Author: Beth HoffmanPublisher: Penguin Group USADate Published: October 26, 2010Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.227 kgDimensions: 12.7 x 19.69 x 1.91 cmFree Delivery on BooksThis book will be delivered for free. It …
The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years …
Mao's Last Dancer (Movie Tie-in) (Paperback)
From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in …
City of Tranquil Light (Hardcover)
Husband-and-wife missionaries Will and Katherine Kiehn witness the crumbling of a 2,000-year-old empire as China is plunged into civil war in the early 20th-century and hope their faith and relationship is enough to sustain them as they continue …
portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.An incisive portrait of the …
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral offers the story of Simon Axler--an actor in his 60ies who has lost his wife, his audience and confidence in his talent--whose risky and aberrant desire points toward a dark and shocking end. …
Remarkable Creatures (Paperback)
Marked for greatness after being struck by lightning in infancy, Mary Anning discovers a fossilized skeleton near her 19th-century home that triggers attacks on her character and upheavals throughout the religious, scientific and academic …
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Paperback)
new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing, who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Reader's Guide …
Driving on the Rim (Hardcover)
Struggling to find meaning in a sordid and humiliating youth from which he emerged a doctor through the help of a surrogate father figure, Berl Pickett is charged with negligent homicide in the death of a former lover before finding strength in …
Paris in the eighties. Four friends. Three men and one woman. Two affairs that destroy a life. In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love …
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope. Reader's Guide …
How to Read the Air (Hardcover)
The son of Ethopian immigrants decided to retrace journey his parents took just after they moved to America, but before he was born, in order to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. By the author of The …
Take One Candle Light a Room (Hardcover)
Returning home to mark the fifth anniversary of a close friend's murder, travel writer Fantine Antoine desperately follows her friend's grieving son to Louisiana to stop his criminal ambitions, an effort also shaped by her father's revelations. …
Book DetailsISBN: 9781609450113Subtitle: Three JourneysAuthor: Damon GalgutPublisher: Penguin Group USADate Published: October 13, 2010Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.272 kgDimensions: 13.34 x 20.96 x 1.91 cmFree Delivery on BooksThis book will …
The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay (Hardcover)
'A sequence of tales chronicling the early 20th-century lives of New Brunswick sisters Idella and Avis Hillock includes ''Gone,'' an account of their mother's heartbreaking childbirth crisis and the Pushcart Prize-nominated ''Wake,'' in which …
The Museum of Innocence (Paperback)
Ending his engagement to pursue a married cousin, Kemal unsuccessfully woos the woman over the course of nine years, during which he amasses personal effects that reflect his obsession and render him a laughingstock among his peers. By the Nobel …
Love and Summer, the latest item from William Trevor's venerable suitcase, is a thrilling work of art.' -The New York Times Book Review In spare, exquisite prose, master storyteller William Trevor presents a haunting love story about the choices …
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the …
fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer,' the boy told the alchemist one night as …
The Elephant's Journey (Hardcover)
tale inspired by a true story follows the adventures of a neglected elephant who is given by King Joà o of Portugal to Archduke Maximilian as a wedding gift and who travels with the archduke through the war-torn storied cities of 16th-century …
family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries. A first novel. Original.The questions, author biography, and suggested reading that follow are intended to enhance …
Ostracized at her new school for her illegitimacy, lower-income status and unfashionable figure, scholarship student Rose finds unexpected strength in her family ties to everyone in her Rhode Island fishing community. By the National Book Award-…
Best Friends Forever (Paperback)
Addie Downs and Valerie Adler were close until a betrayal during their teen years drove them apart; but 20 years later, a terrified Val shows up at Addie's doorstep wearing a bloody coat, pushing them both into a wild adventure where they must …