Author: Laurie R. King ISBN: 9780553807998 Pages: 266 Description: “NEW YORK TIMES “BESTSELLER Laurie R. King’s “New York Times” bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today’s most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thrilling adventure, the couple is separated by a shocking circumstance…
Author: Rachel Cusk ISBN: 9780312311308 Pages: 224 Description: The experience of motherhood is an experience in contradiction. It is commonplace and it is impossible to imagine. It is prosaic and it is mysterious. It is at once banal, bizarre, compelling, tedious, comic, and catastrophic. To become a mother is to become the chief actor in…
Author: Jackson Wright Shultz ISBN: Pages: 232 Description: This book is just fantastic and very thorough. It’s closer to five stars–my only gripe is that the format distracted me and felt disjointed. You begin by reading brief biographies of each person featured in the book, then begin to read their stories based on subject, and…
Author: W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 9780375725029 Pages: 308 Description: Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then…
Author: Banksy ISBN: 9781844137879 Pages: 240 Description: Banksy, Britain’s now-legendary “guerilla” street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Not only did he smuggle his pieces into four of New York City’s major art museums, he’s also “hung” his work at London’s Tate Gallery and adorned Israel’s…
Author: Gary Larson ISBN: 9780836218510 Pages: 288 Description: I admit that I was waiting for this book to go on clearance before I pulled the trigger on it. I waited for it for almost a year and it was worth the wait! The Far Side was a slice of life cartoon that showcased Gary Larson…
Author: Lester R. Brown ISBN: 9780393071030 Pages: 368 Description: As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale…
Author: Carla Capshaw ISBN: 9780373828401 Pages: 288 Description: Quintus Ambustus is a slave—Adiona Leonia is a wealthy socialite. He fights for his life in the gladiator’s ring—she plays cutthroat politics in Rome’s high society. He’s sacrificed everything for his Christian faith—she believes in nothing and no one. But when Adiona’s life is threatened, Quintus is…
Author: William Pène du Bois ISBN: 9780140320978 Pages: 180 Description: One month after graduating from college, I started working. That was in 1984. I am now in my 4th company and except for my paid vacation leaves and rare sick days, I have never been, even a single day, out of the corporate rate race.…
Author: Natalie Barelli ISBN: Pages: 300 Description: I’m sorry. I know this book got a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews, but I just didn’t like it. The main character has to be the MOST gullible person alive. For all of her self-proclaimed genius, she is ridiculously stupid. The majority of this book would…