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Welcome to the Monkey House - Kurt Vonnegut; David Strathairn
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Tit... -
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
SUMMARY: Jacob Jankowski says: "I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other." At the beginning of Water for Elephants, he is living out his days in a nursing home, hating every ... -
Warped Passages - Lisa Randall
From Publishers WeeklyThe concept of additional spatial dimensions is as far from intuitive as any idea can be. Indeed, although Harvard physicist Randall does a very nice job of e... -
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (graf); Larissa Vol
From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently re.... -
Wanted Woman - B. J. Daniels
EDITORIAL REVIEW: She skidded into town on a bike too powerful for most men, with ten thousand dollars in her saddlebag and a bullet wound in her shoulder. Maggie Randolph was sear... -
Walking Dead - C. E. Murphy
SUMMARY: For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relative... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde... -
WATER FOR ELEPHANT - Sara Gruen
<span style="display: inline;" class="all hidden"> An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling au... -
Voyager - Diana Gabaldon
SUMMARY:From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by w... -
Vittorio, the vampire - Anne Rice
Amazon.com ReviewTired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with __, but ...