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The calligrapher's daughter_ a - Eugenia Kim
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author's Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Kor... -
The box garden - Carol Shields
SUMMARY: Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother's second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new u... -
The blue edge of midnight - Jonathon King
Amazon.com ReviewPenzler Pick, This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the Philadelphia Daily News -
The best early stories of F. Sc - Francis Scott Fitzgerald; Bryan
SUMMARY: Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction • Head and Shoulders • Bernice Bobs Her Hair • The Ice Palace • The Offshore Pirate ... -
The art of mending_ a novel - Elizabeth Berg
From Publishers WeeklyBestselling novelist Berg (Talk Before Sleep; Open House ) explores memory, love and forgiveness in her flawed but moving 12th novel. At her annual family reu... -
The alcoholics - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, ad... -
The Zenith Angle - Bruce Sterling
Amazon.com ReviewThe Zenith Angle, futurist Bruce Sterling's first novel since Zeitgeist (2000), tells the story of Derek "Van" Vandeveer. As The Zenith Angle op... -
The Yellow Admiral - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of... -
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & - Paula Guran; Kelley Armstrong;
From BooklistAnthologist and editor Guran has collected 39 thrilling and frightening horror stories published in 2009. While some of the authors will be familiar to readers outside... -
The Year of the Hare - Arto Paasilinna; Pico Iyer; Her
From Publishers WeeklyFirst published in 1975 at the height of the back-to-nature movement, Paasilinna's charming, low-key allegory pursues a journalist abandoning his Helsinki lif...