A hypnotic tale of psychological suspense and haunting beauty. Set among the teeming streets and desolate wharves of Hogarth's London, then shifting to the powder-keg colony of Massachusetts Bay.
Innocence: A Novel
by Jane Mendelsohn
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: 8 May 2001 Publication information
Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws - a loveless house - where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God.
The Vampire Armand: The Vampire Chronicles
by Anne Rice
Hardcover: Oct 1998
Paperback: 1 Sep 1999 Publication information
The story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire,
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt
Hardcover: Jan 1994
Paperback: 1 Jul 1999 Publication information
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.
Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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