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The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
Review
"A modern tragedy on the grand scale . . . As dark as spilled blood."--Salman Rushdie, The New Republic"A vast, fant...
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Veracity
Mark Lavorato
About the Author
Mark Lavorato is a street photographer, musician, poet, and novelist. He was raised on the Canadian prai...
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Criticism and Truth
Roland Barthes
From Library Journal
Written in 1966 in response to an attack on Barthes's Sur Racine , this polemic answers many of the ...
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The Book of Salt
Monique Truong
From Publishers Weekly
A mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household and the slow revel...
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Beautiful Children
Charles Bock
From Publishers Weekly
A wide-ranging portrait of an almost mythically depraved Las Vegas, this sweeping debut takes in e...
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The Feast of the Goat
Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa
Amazon.com Review
Mario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists...
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An Imaginary Life
David Malouf
From the Inside Flap
In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rom...
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The Four Corners of the Sky
Michael Malone
From Publishers Weekly
A daredevil pilot heads out on a wild goose chase and learns to slow down and enjoy life in Malone...
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Some Kind of Normal
Heidi Willis
Review
In Some Kind of Normal, author Heidi Willis explores the strength of the human spirit and a family in crisis. As t...
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In the ''Stranger People's'' country
Charles Egbert Craddock, Marjorie Pryse, Mary Noailles Murfree
Review
"A positive addition to the available in-print books about the region because Murfree was the first writer to publ...
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Only Yesterday
Barbara Harshav, Benjamin Harshav, S. Y. Agnon
From Publishers Weekly
Israeli Nobel Prize-winner Agnon (1887-1970) is a founding father, like Theodor Herzl. While Herzl...
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Shakespeare (DK Eyewitness Books)
Peter Chrisp
Amazon.com Review
William Shakespeare was born into an utterly fascinating time and place: 16th-century England. Eyewit...
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The Autograph Man
Zadie Smith
Amazon.com Review
When Alex-Li Tandem is 12 years old, his father takes him and his friends Adam and Rubinfine to a wrest...
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The Eden Hunter
Skip Horack
From Publishers Weekly
Louisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, ...
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