
Ursule Mirouet
Honore de Balzac and Donald Adamson
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In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the...

Jenny Sparrow Knows the Future
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Jenny Sparrow has a plan. Marrying a stranger in Vegas was not part of it...Jenny thinks she knows...

King Jesus
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Robert Graves's controversial historical novel is a bold reworking of the story of Christ. Here...

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: With Artwork by Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama and Lewis Carroll
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Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means...

Mapp and Lucia
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Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her...

Moon Lake
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'"Watch out for the mosquitoes," they called to one another, lyrically because warning wasn't any...

Number 11
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This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how...

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck and Susan Shillinglaw
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Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except...

Once a Jailbird
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For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a...

Our Game
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Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama The Cold War...