Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. But the consequences of her ...
The Highest Tide
by Jim Lynch
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: Apr 2006
A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy's wonder with the sea during the
summer that will change his life, and the lives around him.
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Hardcover: Jun 2005
Paperback: Oct 2006
What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existedand that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? Elizabeth Kostova's debut ...
A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution
This intellectually vigorous and gripping historical analysis of marriage sheds new light on an institution most people take for granted, and that may, in fact, be experiencing its most convulsive upheaval since the Reformation.
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