Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned strug...
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Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new nov...
Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But th...
Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the twentieth century: a...
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children -are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind-to Parkinson's disease. ...
The novel follows the lives of the title characters, a Czech artist named Joe Kavalier and a Brooklyn-born writer named Sam Clay—both Jewish—before, during, and after Worl...
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At once audacious, dazzling, pretentious and infuriating, Mitchell's third novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely relat...
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, mo...
The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in "Long Walk to Freedom". A good deal of this autobiography was written secretly while Mandela was i...
He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court – but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game.
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Bob Marley was mourned by millions when he passed away in May 1981 after a battle with cancer. The Rastafarian reggae superstar, who brought Jamaican music to global atten...
Richard Feynman (1918-1988), winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. Here he recounts in his inimitable voice his experience trading ideas ...
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. "The Happy Prince" tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince, which, with the he...
Pepe: My Autobiography is the fascinating personal account of his rise to the top of the game. From winning the World Cup, FA Cup and European Championships, to the agony ...
Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob's life with this circus. Sara Gruen spares no detail in chronicling the squalid, filthy, brutish circumstances in which he finds ...
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the distr...
The Way Begins . . .
Sergei was three when the soldiers took him. At fifteen he fled into the wilderness, with nothing to cling to but the memories of a grandfather who...
What if you had only one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life?
Samantha Kingston has it all—looks, popular...
