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What do readers say about No Country for Old Men?
west texas twang dialogue sparse and unsettling prose style and dialog cruel, cruel novelIn his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old b... More details on No Country for Old Men
I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his exe...
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What do readers say about Sleeping Giants?
oral transcription/oral history question/answer interview style interview/case file format unearthing alien artifactsA page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery-and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home... More details on Sleeping Giants
—Nothing. We didn’t talk about it much after that. I went to school every day like any kid my age. No one in my family had ever been to college, so they insisted I keep going to school. I majored in p...
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What do readers say about Old Man's War?
engrossing and believable easy, conversational tone crisp and steady made political science interestingJohn Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races... More details on Old Man's War
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. She's buried in Harris Creek Cemetery, not more than a mile down the road from where I live and where we raised our family. Getting her into th...
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What do readers say about Daisy Jones & The Six?
documentary interview style interview vh1 style short interview style narration multiple voice narrationNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup-from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and the new ... More details on Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones was born in 1951 and grew up in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Frank Jones, the well-known British painter, and Jeanne LeFevre, a French model, Daisy start...
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What do readers say about The Stand?
detailed and involved uncut and without alterations a man-created disease an apocalyptic nightmareWhen a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and ... More details on The Stand
Hapscomb’s Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston. Tonight the regulars were there, sitting by the cash register, drinking beer, talking...
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What do readers say about Ender's Game?
military science fiction uplifting and depressing a society in peril science fiction battle novelThe worldwide bestseller, "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card comes to the screen at last in a major motion picture event in November 2013. Starring Hugo's Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley, the movie is sure to inspire a new audience o... More details on Ender's Game
Ender did not see Peter as the beautiful ten-year-old boy that grown-ups saw, with dark, thick, tousled hair and a face that could have belonged to Alexander the Great. Ender looked at Peter only to d...
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What do readers say about The Picture of Dorian Gray?
brilliant and witty eloquent words and descriptions vivid and beautiful prose dense and confoundingDorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret:... More details on The Picture of Dorian Gray
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more del...
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What do readers say about In the Woods?
beautiful use of language police procedural mystery first person narrative lyrical and hauntingThe bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post).
"Required reading for anyo... More details on In the Woods
What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame o...
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What do readers say about Fever Dream?
strange and creepy confusing, dreamy and spooky literary horror story deceptively short and'simple '"Genius." -Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
"Samanta Schweblin's electric story reads like a Fever Dream." -Vanity Fair
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize!
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream…... More details on Fever Dream
She slings her purse over her shoulder and walks toward the car in her gold bikini. There’s something like mutual fascination between us, and also at times, brief moments of repulsion; I can feel them...
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What do readers say about Foundation?
dry and condescending densely and tersely fast-paced and always interesting plain nondescript proseThe first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series
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Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
For twelve thousand years t... More details on Foundation
TERMINUS–... Its location (see map) was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on ...
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