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What do readers say about The Dragonbone Chair?
top notch writing good old-fashioned storytelling plodding and slow lengthy and boring"One of my favorite fantasy series." -George R. R. Martin
"Groundbreaking." -Patrick Rothfuss
"One of the great fantasy epics of all time." -Christopher Paolini
New York Times-bestselling Tad Williams' landmark epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins... More details on The Dragonbone Chair
ON THIS day of days there was an unfamiliar stirring deep inside the dozing heart of the Hayholt, in the castle's bewildering warren of quiet passages and overgrown, ivy-choked courtyards, in the monk...
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What do readers say about Life After Life?
evocative, funny, poignant, british choosing one's destiny fate and destiny beautiful and intelligent'Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound. Wildly inventive, deeply felt. Hilarious. Humane. Simply put: it's one of the best novels I've read this century' Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of GONE GIRL
'A box of delights. Ingenious in co... More details on Life After Life
SYLVIE WAS WOKEN by a dazzling sliver of sunlight piercing the curtains like a shining silver sword. She lay languidly in lace and cashmere as Mrs Glover came into the room, proudly bearing a huge bre...
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What do readers say about Heart-Shaped Box?
dark and haunting clever plot twists no holds barred tight, compact story"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty….A Valentine from hell."
-Janet Maslin, New York Times
The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclai... More details on Heart-Shaped Box
He had framed sketches of the Seven Dwarfs on the wall of his studio, in between his platinum records. John Wayne Gacy had drawn them while he was in jail and sent them to him. Gacy liked golden-age D...
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What do readers say about The Remains of the Day?
understated, straightforward tone modern day classic formal & unemotional loss and longingFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, an... More details on The Remains of the Day
Tonight, I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury. The first day of my trip is now completed, and all in all, I must say I am quite satisfied. This expedition began this morning al...
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What do readers say about Empire of the Summer Moon?
extrordinarily well written the culture of war really heavy in tangents fascinating, balanced, effusive, detailed*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*
This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-ye... More details on Empire of the Summer Moon
CAVALRYMEN REMEMBER SUCH moments: dust swirling behind the pack mules, regimental bugles shattering the air, horses snorting and riders’ tack creaking through the ranks, their old company song rising ...
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What do readers say about The Power of One?
mark twain style coming of age story coming of age saga a tremendous debut novel"The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama."
-The New York Times
"Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the indivi... More details on The Power of One
Before my life started properly, I was doing the usual mewling and sucking, which in my case occurred on a pair of huge, soft black breasts. In the African tradition I continued to suckle for my first...
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What do readers say about The Red Tree?
paranormal chick lit complex and satisfying super freaky, top-notch writing enjoyable ghost storySarah Crowe left Atlanta-and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship-to live in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant-an anthropologist obsessed with the anc... More details on The Red Tree
I’m almost awake now, starting in on my second cup of coffee, sitting here at the kitchen table, and writing this in the spiral-bound notebook I purchased down in Coventry, a little over a week ago. I...
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What do readers say about The Last Sun?
fast-paced, action-packed story breakneck pace grownup fantasy clunkyIn this debut novel and series starter, the last member of a murdered House searches for a missing nobleman, and uncovers clues about his own tortured past. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's m... More details on The Last Sun
“—said ‘What do I look like, your talla?’ And then I said, ‘You must be mad—go live off someone else’s income, you wrecked parasite.’” The rich man pronounced wrecked in the old Atlantean accent, clea...
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What do readers say about Red Moon?
top notch writing fast paced, punchy book werewolves-as-political-allegory audiobook narrationAward-winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West.
They live among us.
They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.
They change. ... More details on Red Moon
HE CANNOT SLEEP. All night, even with his eyes closed, Patrick Gamble can see the red numbers of the clock as they click forward: 2:00, 3:30, 4:10, now 4:30, but he is up before the alarm can blare. H...
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What do readers say about The Family Tree?
beautifully crafted nature post-plague apocalyptical tale top-notch writing and plotting clever and entertaining storyTHE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK.
Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange thin... More details on The Family Tree
Midmorning, a Tuesday in July, Dora Henry went out the front door of Jared's place to get the paper that the paperboy had, as usual, dropped just over the picket fence. On her way back up the immacula...
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