Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms us and how it is the one lasting element in our lives.
The Dew Breaker by
Edwidge Danticat
Hardcover: Mar 2004
Paperback: 8 Mar 2005 Publication information
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"—a torturer—a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
Sightseeing
: Short Stories
by
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Hardcover: Dec 2004
Paperback: 28 Jan 2005 Publication information
A glorious fiction debut written with exceptional acuity by an award-winning twenty-five-year-old Thai-American writer. Read a complete short story at BookBrowse.
Our Kind
: A Novel in Stories
by
Kate Walbert
Hardcover: Apr 2004
Paperback: 1 Jan 2005 Publication information
Deeply felt and richly imagined, full of compelling drama and historical authenticity, Thomas Steinbeck's stories are as memorable and rugged as the coastline that inspired them. Click the excerpt link to read a complete short story.
A Brief History of The Flood by
Jean Harfenist
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: 1 Jul 2003 Publication information
In this funny, sad and somehow good natured book Jean Harfenist explores the interface between love and dysfunction through young Lillian whose voice will stick with you long after you turn the last page.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
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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British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...
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