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The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his fron... -
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
SUMMARY: This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. -
The Ones That Got Away - Stephen Graham Jones
From Publishers WeeklyThirteen horror stories, most originally published between 2005 and 2010, make up Native American writer Jones's second collection (after 2005's Bleed into Me... -
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
SUMMARY: Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a cel... -
The Next Decade_ What the World - George Friedman
From Publishers WeeklyWhereas Friedman's last book, The Next 100 Years, focused on "the impersonal forces that shape history in the long run," now the geopolitical intelligence exp... -
The Navigator of New York - Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston's breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for th... -
The Native Star - M. K. Hobson
In the tradition of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, this brilliant first novel fuses history, fantasy, and romance. Prepare to be enchanted by M. K. Hobson's captivating take on th... -
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was ... -
The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson
Review"Johnson fearlessly takes readers from . . . a cool innocent-abroad-with-iPod story to supernatural thriller. The tension ramps up exquisitely among cups of tea, library visi... -
The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John le Carre
I have visited Bohemia and got away unscathed. Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Be...