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One more Sunday
Par John MacDonald. 1984
A complex novel about the legacy of an influential and charismatic television preacher, Rev. John Tinker Meadows, a man in…
the high-stakes, high-profit business of saving souls. The religious and economic empire of the Meadows family comes under scrutiny with the disappearance of an investigative journalist on assignment from New York. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1984Seizure
Par Robin Cook. 2003
Senator Ashley Butler will hold up permission for stem-cell research being proposed by doctors Daniel Lowell and Stephanie D'Agostino unless…
they secretly perform experimental surgery on him to cure his Parkinson's. The politician also complicates the deal by wanting to use cells obtained from the Shroud of Turin. Bestseller.The cat who talked turkey
Par Lilian Jackson Braun. 2004
A dead body found on his property slightly dims Moose County columnist Jim "Qwill" Qwilleran's excitement over a new bookstore…
and a neighboring town's upcoming bicentennial. After wild turkeys, rare for the area, suddenly appear Qwill looks to his clairvoyant cat, Koko, for answers. Bestseller.The crimson petal and the white: A Novel
Par Michel Faber. 2003
"London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman's struggle to lift her body and soul…
out of the gutter. Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, yearns for a better life. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. Infatuated with Sugar, William's patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during "the Season"; his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions; his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox; as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions." -- Provided by publisherThe fall of Númenor: and other tales from the second age of Middle-earth
Par J. R. R Tolkien. 2022
"J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a "dark age, and not very much of its history…
is (or need be) told." And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron. It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father's death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book's content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Númenóreans' power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men. Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien's magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form. Now, adhering to the timeline of "The Tale of Years" in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee." -- Provided by publisherIn selecting the twenty stories in this collection, Smiley indicates the order of the stories is artful--like a Chinese meal--so…
that the flavors enhance each other as the feast progresses. These "strange, exotic, rich, and charming" stories include selections by Gish Jen, Ellen Gilchrist, Stephen Dobyns, Kate Braverman, and Jamaica Kincaid. BestsellerPrimary colors: a novel of politics
Par Joe Klein. 1996
Parallels the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. When Jack Stanton, a southern governor, makes a run for the presidency, he…
recruits Henry Burton as his deputy campaign manager. At first Henry sees the opportunity to gain an insider's view of politics as a welcome distraction. But the business of politics soon builds a formidable backdrop to Henry's personal identity crisis. Strong language. Bestseller