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Ocean of Words Written by Ha Jin The central characters in the stories of Ocean of Words are men serving in the People's Army on the northern border with Russia in the 1970s, as China and Russia are poised for war. Whether dealing with personal crises or guarding... Read More Old School Written by Tobias Wolff Old School takes place at a prestigious private school for boys in the academic year of 1960—1961. The narrator, a scholarship boy whose mother has died, is determined to keep his classmates from knowing anything about his family or his background... Read More On Chesil Beach Written by Ian McEwan Unfolding with the mesmerizing, deeply human storytelling that has made Ian McEwan one of the most beloved authors of his generation, On Chesil Beach captures one night and two lifetimes, wound into a stunning turning point. In taut yet poignantly written... Read More On Green Dolphin Street Written by Sebastian Faulks Forty-year-old Mary van der Linden is a British diplomat’s wife living in Washington, D.C., entertaining at Embassy parties, happily absorbed with love for her husband Charlie and her two children. Charlie is bored and unhappy in his job and dangerously dependent... Read More One Last Look Written by Susanna Moore Written in the form of diary entries and spanning the years 1836—1843, One Last Look tells the story of Lady Eleanor, her sister Harriet, and her brother Henry, as they plunge into the utterly un-British world of India. Henry, the newly... Read More One Step Behind Written by Henning Mankell Things are not going well for Inspector Kurt Wallander. Driving east from Ystad, Sweden, early one morning, he falls asleep at the wheel and narrowly avoids a head-on collision with a truck. His fatigue has become constant. A visit to the... Read More Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven Written by Dawn Turner Trice Tempestt Rosa Saville is a smart, adventurous 11-year-old when her family moves from the familiar streets of Chicago's South Side to Lakeland, a luxurious gated haven for the city's leading black professionals. For her father, a teacher at Lakeland's much-touted "academy,"... Read More Open Secrets Written by Alice Munro The central characters in the stories are all women: an emotionally adventurous librarian; a young woman kidnapped by Albanian tribesmen in the 1920s; a farmer's wife who yearns for gentility; a young born-again Christian whose unresolved feelings of love and anger... Read More Oryx and Crake Written by Margaret Atwood The narrator of Atwood’s riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. He... Read More The Other Written by David Guterson Neil Countryman, the son of a carpenter, is a high school English teacher, a happily married father of two, and an aspiring writer. As a teenager, he hiked the uncharted wilderness of the North Cascades with his friend, John William Barry... Read More Our Guys Written by Bernard Lefkowitz Glen Ridge, New Jersey: In March 1989, thirteen teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement where four of them gang-raped her while several others looked on. The boys were the most popular athletes in high school. And although rumors of the rape began quickly... Read More Our Lady of the Forest Written by David Guterson Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent in a damp, depressed lumber town in Washington State. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of... Read More Our Story Begins Written by Tobias Wolff Our Story Begins brings together ten dazzling new stories and twenty-one classics by Tobias Wolff. Written over the course of thirty years, the stories portray soldiers and academics fraught with doubts about their place in the world; husbands and wives struggling... Read More Out Written by Natsuo Kirino In the dreary, exhausting hours of the nightshift at a boxed-lunch factory, four women have formed a friendship of sorts. They work side by side and chat briefly each night, always carefully guarding their troubling thoughts and personal worries. When Yayoi... Read More The Outside World Written by Tova Mirvis Naomi and Joel Miller, who live a liberal Orthodox life in the suburbs of New Jersey, are unsettled when their son, Bryan, returns from a year at a yeshiva in Israel wearing a black hat and insisting that they call him... 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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