Aleph
Library Journal Best-selling inspirational author Coelho was having a crisis of faith, so he did what we all do in that situation: he traveled through Europe, Africa, and Asia and met again with a woman he loved 500 years ago. His books having sold over 130 million copies in 160 countries in 72 languages, you […]
The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons
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The Buddha In the Attic
The New York Times Book Review – Alida Becker In the Japanese art of sumi-e, strokes of ink are brushed across sheets of rice paper, the play of light and dark capturing not just images but sensations, not just surfaces but the essence of what lies within. Simplicity of line is prized, extraneous detail discouraged. […]
To the End of the Land
Kirkus Reviews: A provocative antiwar novel by one of Israel's best-known writers (See Under: Love, 1989, etc.). If Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post-apocalyptic journey across a ruined landscape, Grossman's latest describes a walkabout across forbidding country that is ever in danger of being consumed by war. Ora and Avram meet in a hospital […]
The Last Werewolf
The New York Times – Justin Cronin The challenge for any writer working within an established genre, especially a genre with a reputation for high camp, is to bring something new to the table while adhering to tradition. On both points, Duncan…scores high marks…Marlowe…deliver[s] his lengthy confession…with the pounding energy of water shot from a […]
The Oregon Experiment
Publishers Weekly In Scribner's evocative latest, Naomi, a professional nose who's lost her sense of smell, and her husband, Scanlon, professor of mass movements and radical action, have just moved to Douglas, Ore., for his tenure-track position when Naomi wakes up to find the air full of the smell of mint. What turns out to […]
Maine : a Novel
The New York Times – Lily King: Many novels begin with a full head of steam, only to peter out halfway through. So often I've gushed to friends about a book, then had to call them later to retract my recommendation. Maine, conversely, starts slowly, but once it gets going, it does not falter. You […]
The Snowman
Library Journal Norwegian detective Harry Hole is in a quandary—he's an expert on serial killers in a country that prides itself on not having any. Yet women are being murdered on the day of the first snowfall, their bodies enmeshed with or guarded by eerily watchful snowmen. Hole has to convince his peers that the […]
Daughters of the Revolution
Library Journal For lack of a life jacket, the trajectory of several lives is altered in this smart, sexy, sarcastic, sophisticated novel from Cooke (The Bostons, a New York Times Notable Book). The Goode School, a prestigious New England bastion of male-only education, designed to prepare its wealthy students to become masters of the universe, […]