Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alices Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.
An extraordinary debut from a talented new voice, Up from the Blue untangles the year in Tillie's life that changed everything: 1975, the year her mother disappeared.
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
: A Novel
by
Peter Ackroyd
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 7 Sep 2010 Publication information
When two nineteenth-century Oxford studentsVictor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelleyform an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.
The Chosen One by
Carol Lynch Williams
Hardcover: May 2009
Paperback: 31 Aug 2010 Publication information
Kyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by
William Kamkwamba
Hardcover: Oct 2009
Paperback: 1 Aug 2010 Publication information
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is the immensely engaging and inspiring true account of an enterprising African teenager who constructed a windmill from scraps to create electricity for his entire community.
Everything Asian
: A Novel
by
Sung J.
Woo
Hardcover: Apr 2009
Paperback: 20 Jul 2010 Publication information
A very large book - in number of pages and in content - and every page worth reading. Thoroughly enjoyed this one and her first book on the...
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Two Lives is a memoir written by international best-selling author, Vikram Seth. In this interesting and engaging book, Seth writes about his great...
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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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Judge rules unused Borders gift cards to be worthless(May 23 2013) Borders owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time the bookstore chain shut down, a Manhattan federal...
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