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A Clash of Kings
George R. R. Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire [2]: Amazon.com ReviewHow does he do it? George R.R. Martin's high fantasy weaves a spell sufficient to seduce even those who vowed never to start a doorstopper fantasy series again (the first book--A Game of Thrones--runs over...
Red Hook Road
Ayelet Waldman
Amazon.com ReviewPat Conroy Reviews Red Hook RoadPat Conroy is the author of nine previous books: The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Rec...
Live Wire
Harlan Coben
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Edgar-winner Coben's 10th Myron Bolitar novel (after Long Lost) is a perfect 10: providing readers with new information about the past of the former athlete turned agent and owner of MB Reps; a satisfyingly compl...
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff
Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She w...
Dead in the Family
Charlaine Harris
Southern Vampire Mysteries [10]: If you think your family relationships are complicated, think again: you haven't seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her...
Driftwood Cottage
Sherryl Woods
Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to furth...
Chasing The Dime
Michael Connelly
Amazon.com ReviewHenry Pierce is about to become very rich--as soon as his firm, Amedeo Technologies, gets an infusion of capital from a big backer. But the brilliant chemist's workaholic habits are disrupted when his lover, the former intelligence o...
The Zahir
Paulo Coelho
From Publishers WeeklyThe press chat cites 65 million copies of Coelho's eight previous novels in print, making the Brazilian author one of the world's bestselling novelists (150 countries and 56 languages). This book, whose title means "the present"...
Furies of Calderon
Jim Butcher
Codex Alera [1]: For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies - elementals of earth, air, fire, water and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord o...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
The Millennium Trilogy [1]: Amazon.com ReviewThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of don't want to mess with the ...
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
The Ender Saga [2]: In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but a...
The Virgin's Lover
Philippa Gregory
The Tudor Series [6]: From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Gregory captivates again with this expertly crafted historical about the beautiful young Virgin Queen, portrayed as a narcissistic, neurotic home-wrecker. As in her previous novels about Tudor En...
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amazon.com Review"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." So begins Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and it becomes even more unlikely as the novel unfolds. This slim volume cont...
New Spring: The Novel
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time: EDITORIAL REVIEW:
rom America's premier fantasy writer-the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Crossroads of Twilight-comes New Spring: The Novel. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time has captured the imagination of milli...
Prey
Michael Crichton
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practi...
Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay
Dexter [3]: In his work as a Miami crime scene investigator, Dexter Morgan is accustomed to seeing evil deeds. . . particularly because, on occasion, he commits them himself. But Dexter's happy existence is turned upside down when he is called to an ...
Lord of Chaos
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [6]: In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world: On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, ...
About a Boy
Nick Hornby
EDITORIAL REVIEW:Inventing a son got Will into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son--a 12-year-old with a lot to teach about being a grown up. From the acclaimed author of "Hig...
The Shadow Rising
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [4]: The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken?In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ...
The Path of Daggers
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [8]: "Robert Jordan has come to dominate the world Tolkien began to reveal."--The New York Times The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride ag...
The Dragon Reborn
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [3]: The Dragon Reborn--the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him--is on the run from his destiny.Able to touch the One Power, but una...
A Crown of Swords
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [7]: The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time. THE WHEEL OF TIME Book One:The Eye of the World Book Two:The Great ...
The Fires of Heaven
Robert Jordan
Wheel of Time [5]: In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:. ... Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al'Thor, ...
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