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The Edible Woman Written by Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman is the first published novel by Margaret Atwood. Rich in metaphor, deliciously comic, and glittering with insight, the story chronicles the fantastic and dramatic ego disintegration of Marian McAlprin, who seems at first to be a perfectly conventional... Read More An Eighth of August Written by Dawn Turner Trice An Eighth of August Built by the first generation of liberated slaves and named in honor of the legend that Halley's Comet landed there, the town of Halley's Landing, Illinois, celebrates the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation every August 8th with the... Read More Elements of Style Written by Wendy Wasserstein The Upper East Side urban gentry are all in a tizzy. Not only must they worry about who will be seated beside whom at the next big dinner party and when the next shipment of Birkin bags arrives, now they have... Read More Elizabeth and Mary Written by Jane Dunn Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, have fascinated biographers and readers for more than four centuries. Even before they gained their respective thrones, their lives were relentlessly observed and commented upon; as queens, they battled deep-seated... Read More Ella Minnow Pea Written by Mark Dunn In Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn transports readers to the imaginary island of Nollop, named for Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram (a sentence using all letters of the alphabet) “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” It is... Read More Ellen Foster Written by Kaye Gibbons "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy," [p. 1] says eleven-year-old Ellen. Thus the young narrator begins her life-story, in the process painting an extraordinary self-portrait: Ellen is a child whose courage and humor win... Read More Embers Written by Sándor Márai Henrik, a retired general of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has lived for years as a recluse in his castle in the Hungarian forest waiting for the arrival of Konrad, the best friend of his youth, whom he has not seen for forty-one... Read More Emma's War Written by Deborah Scroggins Tall, striking and adventurous, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her... Read More The Emperor of Ocean Park Written by Stephen L. Carter When the brilliant and controversial black judge, Oliver Garland, is found dead in his study, not everyone believes it was a heart attack. Mystery, secrecy, and misfortune seemed to surround the judge during his life—his daughter was killed in a hit-and-run... Read More The Emperor's Children Written by Claire Messud At the novel’s center are two young women and a young man, friends since college, who are now entering their thirties. Marina Thwaite is a beautiful “It” girl who, by virtue of her looks and connections, has been given a contract... Read More Empire Falls Written by Richard Russo Dominated by the Whiting family, the founders of the three mills that provided employment for most of the town’s residents, Empire Falls finds itself in sharp decline at the turn of the twenty-first century. Its mills are closed, stores are boarded... Read More Encore Provence Written by Peter Mayle Summer after summer, the Mayles had fled London in search of two or three weeks under the Mediterranean sun, promising themselves that one day they would make Provence their home. "We had talked about it," Mayle writes in A Year in... Read More End in Tears Written by Ruth Rendell At first, there was no reason to link the killings. The first one, months earlier, seemed totally random: a lump of concrete pushed off an overpass onto a passing car. By contrast, the gruesome bludgeoning death of Amber Marshalson, returning home... Read More The End of Manners Written by Francesca Marciano Maria Galante—rule-abiding, shy, a perfectionist—and larger-than-life journalist Imo Glass are on assignment in Afghanistan: Imo to interview girls who've attempted suicide rather than be married off to older men, Maria to photograph them. But in a culture in which women shroud... Read More Enduring Love Written by Ian McEwan "What idiocy, to be racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness." The opening chapter of this novel plunges readers into the story. Joe Rose and his wife, Clarissa, celebrate a work-imposed separation of six weeks with a... Read More English Passengers Written by Matthew Kneale English Passengers presents the diverse and often conflicting perspectives of a remarkable cast of characters—including British convicts, government officials, missionaries who impose their European standards and self-serving rules on the native population, aboriginal Tasmanians caught in a desperate struggle for survival... Read More The English Patient Written by Michael Ondaatje It is 1944, and the war in central Italy is over. It has moved north, leaving in its wake a landscape of ruined places and people. In an isolated Tuscan villa that served as a military hospital, two people remain, forgotten by the... Read More The Epicure's Lament Written by Kate Christensen Self-avowed misanthrope and trust-fund beneficiary Hugo Whittier has decided to live out the brief remainder of his middle age in his decaying family home, Waverley, in upstate New York. He fills his days making runs to town to maintain his supply... Read More An Equal Music Written by Vikram Seth While a music student in Vienna, violinist Michael Holme falls in love with pianist Julia McNicholl. They play together in a string trio, but when Michael has a nervous breakdown because of tensions with his stern and demanding violin teacher he... Read More Evening Written by Susan Minot Ann Lord is dying of cancer. As she lies in bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, visited by friends and family members, we enter the twilight world of her memories, dreams, and regrets. Although she has had three husbands and... Read More Evening (Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Susan Minot Ann Lord is dying of cancer. As she lies in bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, visited by friends and family members, we enter the twilight world of her memories, dreams, and regrets. Although she has had three husbands and... Read More Eventide Written by Kent Haruf In many ways, Eventide is about the pain of separation. As the novel opens, Victoria Roubideaux is preparing to move away from the McPherons’ ranch to attend college in Fort Collins. Harold and Raymond had taken her in back when she... Read More Everyman Written by Philip Roth “Old age isn’t a battle, old age is a massacre” [p. 156] has become the most frequently quoted line from Everyman. In this brief but expansive novel, Roth turns his gaze on human mortality, offering an intimate yet universal story of... Read More The Exception Written by Christian Jungersen An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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