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A "finely wrought, flawlessly written" novel (New York TimesBook Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is "atvarious moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and awar chronicle" (San Francisco Chronicle). "Guterson has fashionedsomething haunting and true" (Pico Iyer, Time). Winner of thePEN/Faulkner Award. A fall 1999 major motion picture.
Just as football evolved with the introduction of the forwardpass and basketball with the development of the jump shot, so toowas handicapping forever changed by the use of speed figures--andit all started with Andrew Beyer's Picking Winners. This editionfeatures a new foreword in which the author discusses the changesthat have swept the sport since the book's original publication.Picking Winners remains a classic in the field of thoroughbredracing.
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia,Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinatingstory of the final days of Russian monarchs Nicholas and Alexandraas seen through the eyes of the Romanov's young kitchen boy,Leonka.
Marian Evans--who writes under the pen name George Eliot--hascome to Venice on her honeymoon. It is 1880 and she is newlymarried to John Cross, twenty years her junior. She has come tothis city of canals and bridges to start again, to forget the deathof her longtime partner, George Henry Lewes--with whom she sharedtwenty five years of happiness and art. In this new marriage, inthis intensely romantic place, can she give herself the happyending that she provided for Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke? Acentury later, sculptor Caroline Spingold takes us to Venice again.Scarred by her father's abandonment just after she and her parentsspent a summer in the city, Caroline vowed never to return. But nowher powerful, wealthy older husband has brought her back againsther will, to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Told in alternatingchapters subtly linked by themes of art, love, and the challengesof marriage, The World Before Her tells of two women, theirsurprising similarities, and the reckoning Venice will force
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a smallinheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the onlybookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a successof a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of thetown's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge herneighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne.Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop isapparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect thetruth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wantsone.
Called "brilliant" by USA Today , Robert Alexander’shistorical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to thedoomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once againconjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinarydepth and suspense. In the wake of the Russian Revolution, MariaRasputin—eldest of the Rasputin children—recounts her infamousfather’s final days, building a breathless narrative of intrigue,excess, and conspiracy that reveals the shocking truth of herfather’s end and the identity of those who arranged it. Whatemerges is a nail-biting, richly textured new take on one ofhistory’s most legendary episodes.
In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student ofphilosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalisseeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- aplain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his familyand friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to atwelve-year-old dullard How can it be? A literary sensation and abestseller in England and the United States, The Blue Flower wasone of eleven books- and the only paperback- chosen as an Editor'sChoice by the New York Times Book Review. The 1997 National BookCritics Circle Award Winner in Fiction.
On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white copshoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and acache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. JoeRose--rambler, gambler, and professional thief--has just hit thecity. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle thatinvolves a black-hearted police officer called "the Captain," thepimp and crapshooter Little Jesse Williams, and a wicked beautynamed Pearl Spencer. Behind it all is Atlanta, the city oncenothing but dust and ashes, now the richest, busiest metropolis inthe South, mixing sin with success and vibrating with mayhem andmusic. In his acclaimed Storyville series, David Fulmer brought thejazz-soaked streets of New Orleans to life. Now he brings usanother absorbing mystery in a new setting raucous with music andrich with history.
From the moment these two legendary players took the court onopposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychologicalbattle. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick,with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jumpshot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him andwhose caustic wit left opponents quaking in their high-tops. MagicJohnson was Mr. Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the rightmoves. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold.And he burned with an inextinguishable desire to win. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize themost thrilling rivalry in the NBA—East vs. West, physical vs.finesse, old school vs. Showtime, even white vs. black. Each pushedthe other to greatness, and together Bird and Johnson collectedeight NBA Championships and six MVP awards, helping to save afloundering NBA. At the start they were bitter rivals, but alongthe way they became lifelong friends.
Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for findingadventure. But ever since Sophie convinced her friends to startholding regular seances, life in Los Angeles is getting a littletoo dramatic even for Toots' tastes. When Ida receives a messagesuggesting that her late husband was murdered, Toots decides it'stime the Godmothers left L.A. for her hometown ofCharleston...Meanwhile, Mavis has been acting suspiciously andrefuses to divulge what she's up to. She should know by now thatIda, Toots, and Sophie will never let secrets rest or ignore afriend in need. And when the Godmothers discover that whoeverkilled Ida's husband has plans for Ida too, they'll do what they dobest - rally together, concoct a daring plan, and show the worldthere is no match for these formidable friends...
