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Unaccustomed Earth Written by Jhumpa Lahiri In eight finely crafted stories, Jhumpa Lahiri explores the expectations, allegiances, and conflicts that both create and fray the ties between generations. The Bengali-American families she depicts struggle with doubts and uncertainties, emotional upheavals in their personal lives, and feelings of... Read More Unafraid of the Dark Written by Rosemary Bray How much hardship can you heap on a child before she gives up? Reading Rosemary Bray's memoir, Unafraid of the Dark, you might be tempted to answer: however much you do, she simply won't. The bigger answer, the one that can be... Read More Unbowed Written by Wangari Maathai In this deeply affecting and inspiring memoir, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a divorced mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya. Born in a rural village... Read More The Unconsoled Written by Kazuo Ishiguro With superb control and a masterly ear for the accents of repression, Ishiguro has created a work that is both farce and nightmare and that explores the terrible wounds that families inflict on their members and societies on their citizens, the... Read More Under the Banner of Heaven Written by Jon Krakauer In his bestselling books Into Thin Air and Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer explored the extreme ambitions of men who tested themselves against Mount Everest and the Alaskan wilderness. In Under the Banner of Heaven, he turns to a different kind... Read More An Unfinished Life Written by Mark Spragg Jean Gilkyson works in a dry-cleaning shop and lives with her boyfriend, Roy, in his trailer in Iowa. Her ten-year-old daughter, Griff, has made her mother promise that the next time Roy beats up Jean they will leave him. So Griff... Read More The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories Written by Valerie Martin In the title story, an established writer is shaken by an encounter with a treacherous former lover, a woman who repels him both physically and morally but who possesses a gift that dwarfs his own. In “His Blue Period,” a mild-mannered... Read More The Unicorn Hunt Written by Dorothy Dunnett Scotland, 1468: a nation at the edge of Europe, a civilization on the threshold of the Modern Age. Merchants, musicians, politicians, and pageantry fill the court of King James III. In its midst, Nicholas seeks to avenge his bride's claim that... Read More The Unknown Errors of Our Lives Written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Frequently torn between memories of the traditions and families they have left behind in India and the new, modern lives they are creating in America, Divakaruni's strong central characters are poised on emotional precipices as they confront pivotal decisions: Mrs. Dutta... Read More An Unquiet Mind Written by Kay Redfield Jamison For years, Kay Redfield Jamison led a double life. An international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who have achieved the status of full professor of medicine at an American university, Jamison was harboring a secret: she... Read More Up in the Old Hotel Written by Joseph Mitchell Joseph Mitchell's writing has the virtues of all great journalism: self-effacement, close observation, a reverence for facts, and a masterful use of detail. This volume includes Mitchell's four best-known books, McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, Old Mr. Flood, The Bottom of the Harbor,... Read More The Uses of Enchantment Written by Heidi Julavits One Autumn day in 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her Massachusetts prep school. A few weeks later she reappears unharmed and with little memory of what happened to her–or at least little that she is willing to share. Was Mary... 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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