Search Results for: Flight Reservations 1800-299-7264 Japan Airlines Phone Number
City of the Mind
by Penelope Lively“Lively is a magical writer, and her sensuous prose tempers the metaphysical abstractions. . . . Her uncanny empathy and ability to evoke emotion make the reader feel more like…
The Best a Man Can Get
by John O'Farrell“[A] bright, hilarious little novel . . . O’Farrell has a tart narrative voice and a delectably understated way with wisecracks. You could say that his style depends heavily on…
Will Self
…Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction; Umbrella, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Shark; Phone; the memoir Will; and the essay collection Why Read….
The Perfect Summer
by Juliet Nicolson“Sharp and rangy. . . . Nicolson sets a lively, theatrical pace and makes good use of recurring characters. . . . [There are] many glittering pieces in Nicolson’s book.”…
Celebrate Women in Translation Month with Grove Atlantic
…Murata / Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child. Working in a convenience store, she finds a predictable world mandated by…
The Cigar Roller
by Pablo MedinaA hypnotic portrayal of a Cuban cigar roller, now an old man trapped inside his useless body, compelled to relive his worst failures in order to conjure his fairest memories….
Acqua Alta
by Donna Leon“Smuggling, sexual betrayal, high-class fakery and, of course, mafia money make for a rich brew.” —Sunday Times (London)…
Peace Kills
by P. J. O'Rourke“Peace Kills is war coverage in the great tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H: Wars can be right or wrong, but they are always crazy and frightening in the center…
Goodbye Tsugumi
by Banana Yoshimoto“Yoshimoto’s words are considered, and each of them has the weight of a small, perfectly round stone dropped into a still pool. . . . In Tsugumi the author has…
Self-Portrait With Woman
by Andrzej Szczypiorski“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . . He exhorts those of us who…
