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What do readers say about The Night Circus?
magical circus exhibitions almost dreamlike quality style over substance non-linear plot lineThe circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at Dawn
As dusk shifts to twili... More details on The Night Circus
The man billed as Prospero the Enchanter receives a fair amount of correspondence via the theater office, but this is the first envelope addressed to him that contains a suicide note, and it is also t...
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What do readers say about Downbelow Station?
strong female characters intricate, intriguing, and well-told grand space opera fascinating and engagingThe Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth ... More details on Downbelow Station
The stars, like all man’s other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture of man onto Earth’s own great oceans, or into the air, or into space. ...
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What do readers say about The Grand Design?
incoherent, biased and offensive the color illustrations a thought experiment straight forward fashion#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent "grand design" of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion-or does science offer another e... More details on The Grand Design
Quantum theories can be formulated in many different ways, but what is probably the most intuitive description was given by Richard (Dick) Feynman, a colorful character who worked at the California In...
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What do readers say about Barbarian Days?
fascinating and engaging pro surfer memoir a really excellent memoir pulitzer winning memoir**Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**
Included in President Obama's 2016 Summer Reading List
"Without a doubt, the finest surf book I've ever read . . . " -The New York Times Magazine
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of a... More details on Barbarian Days
I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF MYSELF AS A SHELTERED CHILD. STILL, Kaimuki Intermediate School was a shock. We had just moved to Honolulu, I was in the eighth grade, and most of my new schoolmates were “drug ...
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What do readers say about Maus I?
low brow graphic novel graphic novel form nonfiction graphic novel graphic novel biographyThe first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker). A bru... More details on Maus I
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What do readers say about Doc?
half fiction, half nonfiction john henry holliday biographical narrative voice literary historical fictionNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling pr... More details on Doc
He began to die when he was twenty-one, but tuberculosis is slow and sly and subtle. The disease took fifteen years to hollow out his lungs so completely they could no longer keep him alive. In all th...
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What do readers say about The Nature of Fragile Things?
suspenseful, heartbreaking, perfectly paced enjoyable and historic story twisted, heartbreaking and intense compelling story and charactersApril 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.
Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to ... More details on The Nature of Fragile Things
QUESTION: Thank you. Now, if you don’t mind, I’ve a few questions for the record, since you and I have not had an opportunity to speak before now. You emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 19...
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What do readers say about Open Heart?
dramatic, heartbreaking and wonky fascinating and engaging informative, educational and interesting heart surgeriesIn gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from death
When Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first tim... More details on Open Heart
What was so fascinating about heart surgery was the movement, like watching a pianist’s hands or a dancer’s feet. The heart beats more than sixty times per minute to pump 5 liters of blood. This adds ...
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What do readers say about Abduction?
fascinating and engaging scifi an undersea civilisation medische thriller medical thrillersThe world's bestselling master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook skillfully combines human drama and high-tech thrills with the latest breakthroughs and controversies of modern medicine. Now, in his most daring novel yet, a mysterious transmission ... More details on Abduction
An odd vibration roused Perry Bergman from a restless sleep, and he was instantly filled with a strange foreboding. The unpleasant murmur put him in mind of fingernails scraping down a blackboard. He ...
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What do readers say about Life on the Border?
magic sometimes works fascinating and engaging collage an anthology of short storiesAll new stories by Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Charles de Lint, Craig Shaw Gardener, Michael Korolenko, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly, Midori Snyder, and Terri Windling (writing as Bellamy Bach); song lyrics by Emma Bull.
Cover art by Rick Berry... More details on Life on the Border
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