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What do readers say about Child of God?
nasty, brutish and short violence and deviance weird and disturbing loneliness and lunacyIn this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard-a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape-haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life... More details on Child of God
THEY CAME LIKE A CARAVAN of carnival folk up through the swales of broomstraw and across the hill in the morning sun, the truck rocking and pitching in the ruts and the musicians on chairs in the truc...
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What do readers say about What We Talk About When We Talk About Love?
short story collections collection of short stories incredibly minimal but emotional love and alcoholismIn his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature-a haunting m... More details on What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The four of us were sitting around his kitchen table drinking gin. Sunlight filled the kitchen from the big window behind the sink. There were Mel and me and his second wife, Teresa—Terri, we called h...
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What do readers say about One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
sharp, quick, and biting very short, but great shorter but very punchy true narrative formForeshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Continuing the tradit... More details on One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
THE HAMMER BANGED reveille on the rail outside camp HQ at five o’clock as always. Time to get up. The ragged noise was muffled by ice two fingers thick on the windows and soon died away. Too cold for ...
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What do readers say about The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical...?
wordy, pretentious, and repetitive various neurological patients beautiful and rich a marvellous bookPresents a series of stories about men and women who, representing both medical and literary oddities, raise fundamental questions about the nature of reality... More details on The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical...
The last thing one settles in writing a book,' Pascal observes, 'is what one should put in first.' So, having written, collected and arranged these strange tales, having selected a title and two epigr...
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What do readers say about Replay?
incredibly thought-provoking and compelling much like saint's a cult classic time travel-ish novelsJeff Winston, forty-three, didn't know he was a replayer until he died and woke up twenty-five years younger in his college dorm room; he lived another life. And died again. And lived again and died again - in a continuous twenty-five-year cycle - ea... More details on Replay
“We need—” she’d said, and he never heard her say just what it was they needed, because something heavy seemed to slam against his chest, crushing the breath out of him. The phone fell from his hand a...
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What do readers say about The WEIRDest People in the World?
a hard read interesting and thought-provoking universal human nature a must readA New York Times Notable Book of 2020
A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020
A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020... More details on The WEIRDest People in the World
The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe; a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a di...
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What do readers say about And the Band Played On?
detailed and immaculate very well documented deeply moving and informative a very insightful bookAn examination of the AIDS crisis exposes the federal government for its inaction, health authorities for their greed, and scientists for their desire for prestige in the face of the AIDS pandemic.... More details on And the Band Played On
Tall sails scraped the deep purple night as rockets burst, flared, and flourished red, white, and blue over the stoic Statue of Liberty. The whole world was watching, it seemed; the whole world was th...
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What do readers say about Get a Life, Chloe Brown?
heartfelt and engaging romance contemporary romantic comedy all the representation ableism and abuseRipped Bodice Awards for Excellence in Romantic Fiction
"Absolutely charming... a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page." - Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride Test
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“You’re the best superintendent we’ve ever had,” she cooed from the bathroom doorway, clasping one wrinkled hand to her bony chest. Her shock of white hair fairly quivered with emotion. Bit of a drama...
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What do readers say about It Happened One Summer?
fun new series worth the hype alexis and mutt’s relationship hannah and foxUSA TODAY BESTSELLER
Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt's Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood "It Girl" who's cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local wh... More details on It Happened One Summer
Piper Bellinger looked down at her lipstick-red, one-shoulder Valentino cocktail dress and tried to find the flaw but came up with nothing. Her tastefully tanned legs were polished to such a shine, sh...
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What do readers say about Wed By Proxy?
marriages of convenience amazing cottage core vibes illustrated erotic literature fantasy historical romance and steamyThrice wedded, but never bedded, Mathilde Martindale has long lived in the shadow of her indomitable mother, and meekly done as she was told. Until one day she decides to become mistress of her own destiny and leave the royal court to find her own pa... More details on Wed By Proxy
This is a work of fiction and any names, characters, events or organisations are either a product of my imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coinciden...
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