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"An unrepeatable feat, a tour de force." — The Washington Post Book World
In Tabloid Dreams, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler dazzles with his mastery of the short story and his empathy for eccentric and ostracized...
Автор: Вудс Саймон
Серия: Aidy Westlake Racing Mysteries #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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The first book in the Aidy Westlake mystery series set in the high-octane world of motor racing.
When Derek Deacon threatens to kill Alex Fanning, his championship rival, rookie driver Aidy Westlake doesn't put much stock in it — it's...
The Pacific Northwest is known for its near-constant rainy season. But on New Years Day, the sun emerges and one woman, alone with her dog, ventures out to discover that something else has arrived with the new year: vast sinkholes, large enough...
One-legged Charley Summers is finally home from the war, after several years in a German prison camp, only to find he must now deal with the death of his lover Rose. A shell-shocked romantic — slow, distant, and dreamy — he begins to have...
What would happen if terrorists got their hands on a virus — a terrifying mix of Ebola, hepatitis, and bubonic plague — with the potential to wipe out humanity? This is the crisis that Derek Stillwater faces as troubleshooter for the U.S....
"Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity, mercy, and even, yes,...
Firefly is a dream-like evocation of pre-war Cuba, replete with hurricanes, mystical cults and slave-markets. The story is the coming-of-age of a precocious and exuberant boy with an oversized head and underdeveloped sense of direction, who views...
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