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What do readers say about The Eye of the World?
epic fantasy tale slow and ponderous straight up classic fantasy richly detailed worldSoon to be an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
The first novel in Robert Jordan's #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®.
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become l... More details on The Eye of the World
The palace still shook occasionally as the earth rumbled in memory, groaned as if it would deny what had happened. Bars of sunlight cast through rents in the walls made motes of dust glitter where the...
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What do readers say about The Blind Assassin?
beautiful and varied melodramatic science fiction inadequacy and incompetence standalone reasonable storyTen days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
Thus begins The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel. Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent Industrialist but n... More details on The Blind Assassin
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired: she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing thr...
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What do readers say about Emma?
ironic and satirical well-intentioned but clueless romantic comedy of manners well-plotted and satisfying storyEmma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England. The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and self-knowledge, and... More details on Emma
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What do readers say about Still Life?
interesting and challenging amateur artists and bow-hunting clear and smart nostalgic, almost naiveWinner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal... More details on Still Life
Miss Jane Neal met her maker in the early morning mist of Thanksgiving Sunday. It was pretty much a surprise all round. Miss Neal’s was not a natural death, unless you’re of the belief everything happ...
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What do readers say about Strong Poison?
golden age mystery lots of well-drawn characters very well plotted entertaining characters and witThe classic mystery that first featured Harriet Vane, companion sleuth to the dashing, perennially popular private investigator, Lord Peter Wimsey, from the mystery writer widely considered the greatest mystery novelist of the Golden Age-Dorothy L. S... More details on Strong Poison
The judge was an old man; so old, he seemed to have outlived time and change and death. His parrot-face and parrot-voice were dry, like his old, heavily-veined hands. His scarlet robe clashed harshly ...
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What do readers say about Tribute?
modern day, romance/mystery slow moving romantic suspense romantic suspense novel hollywood and celebritiesA young woman gets caught up in the secrets and shadows of a big-screen legend and a small-town scandal in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Nora Roberts.
Cilla McGowan, a former child star, has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. So ... More details on Tribute
According to legend, Steve McQueen once swam buck-naked among the cattails and lily pads in the pond at the Little Farm. If true, and Cilla liked to think it was, the King of Cool had stripped off and...
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What do readers say about Consider Phlebas?
gripping, well written nouveau space opera the complex moral fabric of the universe the total pointlessness of warThe first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's... More details on Consider Phlebas
The ship didn’t even have a name. It had no human crew because the factory craft which constructed it had been evacuated long ago. It had no life-support or accommodation units for the same reason. It...
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What do readers say about Not Alone?
first contact with extraterrestrials every page, every twist stand alone book elementary using one-dimensional charactersAliens exist, the government knows, and Dan McCarthy just found the proof. When Dan McCarthy stumbles upon a folder containing evidence of the conspiracy to end all conspiracies - a top-level alien cover-up - he leaks the files without a second thoug... More details on Not Alone
Dan McCarthy’s delivery route proved straightforward enough thanks to Winchester Street’s proximity to the IDA building. The building wasn’t particularly big, but it was a local landmark which Dan viv...
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What do readers say about Cup of Gold?
the buccaneer henry morgan tragedy behind the hero historical novel perfunctorySteinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction-the violent, exciting story of the infamous pirate Henry Morgan... More details on Cup of Gold
All afternoon the wind sifted out of the black Welsh glens, crying notice that Winter was come sliding down over the world from the Pole; and riverward there was the faint moaning of new ice. It was ...
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What do readers say about Clarimonde?
gothic vampire story slightly slow and ponderous in the first person a novellaClarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse) is a short story written by Théophile Gautier and published in 1836. A terrifying tale by Gautier written in first person. It narrates the story of a young priest, Romuald, who falls in love with a mysterious woman c... More details on Clarimonde
Brother, you ask me if I have ever loved. Yes. My story is a strange and terrible one; and though I am sixty-six years of age, I scarcely dare even now to disturb the ashes of that memory. To you I ca...
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