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When she was twenty-seven, Nell Stevens?a lifelong aspiring novelist?won an all-expenses-paid fellowship to go anywhere in the world to write. Would she choose a glittering metropolis, a romantic...

Author: Hampton SidesPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: Oct 09, 2007Number of Pages: 624 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1400031109ISBN-13: 9781400031108

Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in...

BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK ? A high-altitude thriller that will take your breath away?Cecily Wong is on her most dangerous climb yet, miles above sea level. But the elements are nothing compared to...

Kevin Kwan, ... author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a ... new novel of social climbing, secret e-mails, art-world scandal, lovesick billionaires, and the outrageous story of what happens when...

A blockbuster new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child, centered on a dominant tech company?Chrysalis?whose groundbreaking virtual reality technology is redefining the way...

Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment LawAuthor: Clara BinghamPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: October 14, 2003Number of Pages: 400 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and RiskAuthor: Jon KrakauerPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: October 29, 2019Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A Chinese American lawyer shares his memories of growing up in rural China during Mao's Cultural Revolution, describing how he struggled to overcome persecution and adversity to achieve an education,...

A dual portrait of the leader of the Oglala Sioux and the general of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry in 1876 cites the battle of June 25 and chronicles the sometimes striking similarities in the lives of...

Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their...

Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2016.Author: Jane MayerPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: January 24, 2017Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: Harriet A. WashingtonPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: Nov 13, 2012Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0767931238ISBN-13: 9780767931236

Enduring budget cuts and the favoritism of other departments at a small liberal arts college, literature professor Jason Fitger despairs of his writing ambitions and imposed role in a star pupil's...

A study of America's early labor movement and the 1886 Haymarket bombing at a Chicaco labor rally that killed several police officers discusses the events of the infamous attack, its sensational...

An NPR Best Book of the Year A dazzling debut novel following the lives of three groundbreaking women--Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Leni Riefenstahl--cinema legends who lit up the twentieth...

Author: Thomas CahillPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: February 13, 2001Number of Pages: 353 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0385483724ISBN-13: 9780385483728

Author: Amartya SenPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: August 15, 2000Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0385720270ISBN-13: 9780385720274

Recounts the story of the author's childhood, covering his early years in World War II-era Kenya as the fifth child of a third wife, his thirst for learning that singled him out, and the political...

Driven To Distraction (Revised): Recognizing And Coping With Attention Deficit DisorderAuthor: Edward M. Md Hallowell, John J. RateyPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: Sep 13, 2011Number of Pages: 400...

One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle It?s 1953, and the Langdons are at a crossroads. Walter, their stalwart patriarch, has died unexpectedly, and his wife must try to keep...

Recounts what happens when the citizens of an island must rely on all their ingenuity to communicate in an increasingly limited language when the goverment progressively bans letters from the...

The best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies?Detective Agency series deftly escorts Jane Austen? beloved, meddlesome heroine into the twenty-first century in this delightfully inventive retelling. The...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ? NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ? A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was...

In this ground-breaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the...

Author: Leigh MontvillePublisher: AnchorPublication Date: May 01, 2012Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0767930525ISBN-13: 9780767930529

*A novel by the author of the viral essay sensation "The Crane Wife"* When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's Island, he calls on Elsa, his...

From James DeMonaco, the writer/director of The Purge film franchise, comes the provocative and terrifying last stand of a lone outpost of women in the wake of a deadly pandemic. Allie Hilts was...

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia, here is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. On the evening of May 3rd, 1937,...

Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal'S Journey From Down Under To All OverAuthor: Geraldine BrooksPublisher: AnchorPublication Date: Jan 19, 1999Number of Pages: 217 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...