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Prodigal Summer

Set in Appalachia, Kingsolver`s very pastoral novel tells the stories of three women who live close to the land. A wildlife biologist studying coyotes is fascinated by a young man with a passion for hunting. An intellectually inclined farmer`s wife f...

Fleeced

Private investigator Regan Reilly tries to track down some priceless diamonds, which were to have been bequeathed to a down-on-its-luck Manhattan social club but which have mysteriously disappeared.

Angela`s Ashes

After years of teaching creative writing, Frank McCourt published his first book, thus obliging his many friends who had been urging him to write about his childhood--a subject they knew from the many uproarious and affecting stories he told about it...

Truman

Huge, ambitious, and perfectly realized, Truman is an American masterpiece about the most American of Americans, a man who confounded the nation and the world by achieving a greatness all his own after coming to the presidency in FDR's giant shadow. ...

Moral Compass

The Moral Compass, the inspiring and instructive companion volume to The Book of Virtues, offers many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history. Organized by the stages along ...

Fatal Voyage

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a suspicious airplane crash that killed 88 people.

The Deadhouse

Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper and NYPD detective Mike Chapman investigate the murder of Lola Dakota, an archaeologist who was conducting a dig at an old penal colony.

Uplift

In chapters dedicated to different aspects of enduring treatment for and surviving breast cancer, Delinsky has collected anecdotes and advice on everything from communicating with family and friends, to exercise, to deodorant alternatives.

The Woman Next Door

In an affluent Connecticut suburb, three couples are thrown into emotional turmoil when their sexy widowed neighbor becomes pregnant. Is the father of her child one of the three husbands?

Blue Gold

Part of Cussler`s National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) series, BLUE GOLD takes Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala on a quest to discover what really happened when their powerboat encountered a flotilla of dead whale bodies--an encounter in which they t...