The Beginner's Goodbye

Author	Ann Packer
ISBN	0375727132

A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do we owe the people we love?

THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay, anyone who has ever felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of...

Author	Diane Johnson
ISBN	0452282268

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller and 1997 National Book Award finalist, Le Divorce, comes a sparkling comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris. Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking story:...

Author	Chris Crutcher
ISBN	0060502517

♥ i love chris crutcher ♥

if oddballs was augusten burroughs for the younger generation, chris crutcher is their david sedaris. both books are humorous essays involving childhood and family and all the tales of things that happen to shape a boy into a man, but crutcher just has better stories....

Author	Margery Allingham
ISBN	0380714485

A jilted Japanese suitor who plots an exotic and melodic revenge… A phony fortuneteller whose bogus predictions put him behind his own crystal eight-ball… A diabolical cosmetician determined to prove that beauty is skin deep but evil goes to the bone… Now gentleman detective Albert Campion...

Author	Patrick N. Allitt
ISBN	1565852559

Darwin. Gladstone. Disraeli. Dickens. Meet the pioneering, paradoxical Britons of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Through peaceful and gradual change they built one of the world's first industrial democracies—in a class-bound society with a powerful landed aristocracy and a negative...