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Palace Council Written by Stephen L. Carter When Eddie Wesley, a young writer living in Harlem, publishes his first short story in The Saturday Evening Post, he becomes an overnight celebrity. He is soon attending Harlem's most exclusive gatherings, including the engagement party for Aurelia Treene and Kevin... Read More Palace of Desire Written by Naguib Mahfouz The Palace of Illusions Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Through the tumultuous life of Panchaali, daughter of King Drupad and wife to five husbands who seek to reclaim their birthright, bestselling novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to a bold and sensuous retelling of captivating stories from the Mahabharat. Woven... Read More Palace Walk Written by Naguib Mahfouz A Palestine Affair Written by Jonathan Wilson When Mark Bloomberg, a disillusioned London painter, arrives in Palestine, he and his American wife Joyce accidentally witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew in their garden. Joyce, an ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British policeman... Read More A Partisan's Daughter Written by Louis de Bernières From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin and Birds Without Wings comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. He's Chris: bored, lonely, and trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his... Read More Pawn in Frankincense Written by Dorothy Dunnett Fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles Lymond cuts a desperate path across the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman the Magnificent in search of a kidnapped child, although finding that child may place the Scots adventurer irrevocably in the power of his enemies. What ensues... Read More Peace Written by Richard Bausch Set in Italy in the harsh winter of 1944, Peace tells the story of three American soldiers—Asch, Joyner, and Marson—who struggle to stay alive in the country near Cassino, through brutal weather, uncertain of their mission, their location, or their moral... Read More Pearl Written by Mary Gordon It is Christmas night, 1998, when Maria Meyers receives a bizarre phone call from the State Department: her daughter, Pearl, studying abroad in Dublin, has chained herself to the flagpole outside the American embassy and has not eaten in six weeks... Read More Perfume Written by Patrick Suskind The novel's protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, begins and ends his life at the Cimetière des Innocents. But in the meantime, a most unusual—and unbelievable—life unfolds. Born with no odor of his own, Grenouille soon develops a sense of smell capable of almost... Read More Personal History Written by Katharine Graham This is the story of a woman's life framed against, and actively involved in, Washington's changing political culture over four decades. It is also the story of The Washington Post, an ailing newspaper acquired by Katharine Graham's father at public auction... Read More The Piano Tuner Written by Daniel Mason When Edgar Drake is summoned to the British War Office and asked to tune an eccentric major’s 1840 Erard grand piano in the jungles of Burma, he is both confused and intrigued. The year is 1886, and the British Empire is... Read More A Piece of Mine Written by J. California Cooper From her first collection of short stories, A Piece of Mine, to the recently published The Future Has a Past, J. California Cooper has introduced an appealing and diverse cast of characters struggling to make the right choices and find happiness... Read More Plainsong Written by Kent Haruf In the small town of Holt, Tom Guthrie, a high school teacher, fights to keep his life together and to raise his two boys after their depressed mother first retreats into her bedroom, and then moves away to her sister's house... Read More Plainwater Written by Anne Carson The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater--a present-day interview with a seventh-century B.C. poet, miniature lectures on topics as varied as orchids and Franz Kafka's doomed sister Ottla, an extended exploration of "the anthropology of water" that includes a set of... Read More Platform Written by Michel Houellebecq Michel Renault is a civil servant, forty years old and numb to the world. When his father is murdered Michel’s response is a contemptuous sneer. He has no lover, no close friends, and almost no real interest in either his own... Read More The Plot Against America Written by Philip Roth Roth’s richly imagined novel begins in 1940, with the landslide election of Lindbergh, who blamed the Jews for pushing America toward war with Nazi Germany. Lindbergh’s admiration of Hitler and his openly anti-Semitic speeches cause increasing turmoil in the Roth household... Read More Possession Written by A.S. Byatt Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, two rather unfulfilled young literary scholars, unexpectedly become figures of romance as they discover a surprising link between the two poets on whom they are authorities. Byatt deftly plays with literary genres--Romantic quest, campus satire, detective... Read More The Post-War Dream Written by Mitch Cullin Sixty-eight-year-old Hollis and his wife, Debra, have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson, Arizona. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier, when Hollis fought in the Korean War, have... Read More Posterity Written by Dorie McCullough Lawson The letter-writers in this collection are household names: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, William Carlos Williams, Anne Bradstreet, Nelson Rockefeller, Frederick Law Olmsted…on and on, the list reads like a who’s who of America’s political and cultural past. But in addition to... Read More Practicing Written by Glenn Kurtz In Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music, Glenn Kurtz takes us on a journey of hope, loss, and surprising return to music. Telling the story of his career as a classical guitarist—from his first lessons at the age of eight to... Read More Precious (Push Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Sapphire "Don't nobody want me. Don't nobody need me. I know who I am... Ugly black grease to be wipe away, punish, kilt, changed, finded a job for"[p. 31]. This is the voice of Precious Jones, a viciously abused Harlem girl. At... Read More Pride of Carthage Written by David Anthony Durham Sickened by Rome’s insatiable appetite for world domination and fueled by his late father’s determination to bring the Italian empire to its knees, Hannibal Barca of Carthage recruits a multinational war machine and initiates one of the most audacious assaults in... Read More The Primal Teen Written by Barbara Strauch Barbara Strauch does an absolutely compelling job of helping us understand our children–and ourselves The Primal Teen is the first book to provide a solid, scientific explanation of the mysterious, infuriating, and downright weird behavior of teenagers. Written by the health and... Read More The Prince of Frogtown Written by Rick Bragg In The Prince of Frogtown, Rick Bragg explores the life of his father, a man who occupied only a few pages in his previous books "but lived between every line" [p. 13]. The largely absent Charles Bragg occupied only a few... Read More A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies Written by Ellen Cooney Charlotte Heath has finally recovered from the mysterious illness that kept her bedridden for nearly a year. She sets out on a horse-drawn sleigh to surprise her husband Hays by joining him at a family wake. But Charlotte is the one... Read More The Professor's House Written by Willa Cather The Professor's House was published in 1925, only seven years after My Antonia, but it is set in an America that is at least a half-century removed from its frontier past, an America that sells off its heritage while buying up... Read More Property Written by Valerie Martin The time is the 1840s; the place is the American South; a voice is speaking to us, with wry wit and distaste, of the appalling scene she is witnessing through a spy glass. “It never ends,” Manon Gaudet tells us [p... Read More Purple Hibiscus Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Set in Enugu, Nigeria, on the eve of a military coup, Purple Hibiscus tells the story of fifteen-year-old Kambili and her painful awakening from an abusive home life to the beginnings of personal freedom. Kambili and her brother Jaja grow up... Read More The Pursuit of Alice Thrift Written by Elinor Lipman Alice Thrift, a brilliant, Harvard-educated intern at a Boston hospital, is well aware of her shortcomings: “I wasn’t one of those attractive doctors with a stethoscope draped around her shoulders and a red silk blouse under her lab coat. I was... Read More Push Written by Sapphire "Don't nobody want me. Don't nobody need me. I know who I am... Ugly black grease to be wipe away, punish, kilt, changed, finded a job for"[p. 31]. This is the voice of Precious Jones, a viciously abused Harlem girl. At... 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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