return to home
 
 
 
HOME general info | the showcase | libraries | reviewers | contact us |   Email this page to a friend

 

search bookbrowse

 


 

 
Free Twice-Monthly Newsletters
 
 
 
 
Bridge of Sighs
 

Win This Book!


The Careful Use of Compliments jacket

The Careful Use of Compliments
by Alexander McCall Smith


The fourth installment of the enchanting, already beloved, bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series.

Enter To Win Now!

 
 
Editor's Choice
 

BookBrowse Poll
Q: When you give books as gifts do you give something else as well?
I think a book is a great gift by itself.
I sometimes give something extra with a book.
I always give something extra with a book.
I never give books as gifts.
Exceptional Books for Discerning Readers
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends only the most interesting and well written books and provides you with everything you need to decide which are right for you - so you can browse the best and ignore the rest!

Visitors can view some of BookBrowse for free, but we save the best features for our members. Read what they say.
   This Week's Recommended Hardcovers
Book Jacket The Good Thief
Hannah Tinti
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Book Jacket Dry Storeroom No. 1
Richard Fortey
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Book Jacket Wesley the Owl
Stacey O'Brien
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Book Jacket A Better Angel
Chris Adrian
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
More recent hardcovers
   Recent BookBrowse News Stories
   
Books and the Media By the Numbers (09/06/08)
Controversial Jewel of Medina to be published in UK (09/04/08)
Sarah Palin, book banner? (09/04/08)
Stephenie Meyer abandons final Twilight book after her draft was illegally posted on the internet (09/02/08)
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' to open in London theater in late September (09/01/08)

More News   rss book news feed    
   Featured Author Interview
Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates author of The Beautiful Struggle, talks about what it was like growing up black in 1980s urban America.
  More author interviews
   This Week in Paperback
Book Jacket Book Jacket Book Jacket
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Brock Clarke
Paperback
(Sep 2008)
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
Paperback
(Sep 2008)
Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre
Paperback
(Aug 2008)
Critics:  Critics:  Critics: 
More recent paperbacks
   More Recommended Hardcovers
Jacket Image Tethered
Amy Mackinnon
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Jacket Image The White Mary
Kira Salak
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Jacket Image The Gargoyle
Andrew Davidson
Hardcover
(Aug 2008)
Critics: 
Jacket Image Lucky
Rachel Vail
Hardcover
(Apr 2008)
Critics: 
More recent hardcovers
   Featured Book Club Interview
Kate McClelland of Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, joins us to discuss the library's "Young Critics" book club. In the 25 years since the club started it has gone from strength to strength, not only inspiring generations of children but providing a valuable resource for publishers looking for feedback on their books.
   Featured book club   Past interviews
   More Paperbacks
The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson. Paperback (Aug 2008).
In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler shored up on the coast of Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940’s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society.

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo. Paperback (9 Sep 2008).
Bridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.

More recent paperbacks   
The Book Finder: 2 Category Search
Cross reference BookBrowse's 70+ themed categories
to find the books that are just right for you!
  Category 1
  Category 2

About the Book Finder   

share this link:
blinklist
del.icio.us
digg
facebook
Furl
Reddit
Stumbleupon
YahooMyWeb
Help
 
 
The Careful Use of Compliments
 
 
Tree of Smoke
 
 
NEW! First
Impressions
Members read and review books often months before they're published. See what they think in First Impressions
The Toss of a Lemon
by Padma Viswanathan
           (Sep/08)
Green Monster
by Rick Shefchik
           (Sep/08)
The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti
           (Aug/08)
Tethered
by Amy Mackinnon
           (Aug/08)
Sweeping Up Glass
by Carolyn D. Wall
           (Aug/08)
More First Impressions Reviews
 
Great books from Vintage
 

wordplay
Solve this clue:
"I You've G I, F I"

and be entered to win....
 
Reading Quiz
 
Most Viewed
This Week
1.  The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
2.  Three Cups of Tea
by David O. Relin, Greg Mortenson
4.  Into The Wild
by Jon Krakauer
5.  Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
6.  Founding Brothers
by Joseph J. Ellis
top 20
 
Best Recent Reader Reviews
Rain Fall
8/14/2008: John Rain is a complex character; I am still not sure if he is a good guy (how can a cold blooded, for money, killer...
     read more
All The Pretty Horses
8/11/2008: This book, and the other two in the Border Trilogy, captured my heart from the beginning. McCarthy does a fabulous job...
     read more
The Monsters of Templeton
7/25/2008: I wish I could say that I loved this book, but I didn't. I was looking forward to it with high expectations because I...
     read more
more reviews    

HOME general info | the showcase | libraries | reviewers | contact us |   Email this page to a friend
addall.com - external link
Visit AddAll.com to compare and save at 41 bookstores!
Searching for used books? Search 20,000+ dealers!
 
Compare music prices  |  Compare movie prices