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The NEW History of the Mayan Ball League
** Buying via the Buy Now link above is a little broken while Amazon update the ISBN number of the book. You may buy it (and still help Red Room) from http://...
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Perfect Red
  It's 1952 in New York City, the height of the Red Scare. When the sheltered secretary of a prominent book editor becomes obsessed with the story of a...
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"Isn't it … particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frédéric-Yves Jeannet asks Hélène Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. "[I]t's only in...
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Front Cover, The Final Appearance of America's Favorite Girl Next Door
"It" girl Ellen Gregory has it all: a brilliant career in stand-up comedy, a smash-hit sitcom, the obligatory celebrity mansion in L.A., and the publicists, manager...
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Going Global
Co-edited by Amal Amireh and Lisa Suhair Majaj. By investigating the undertaking of reading and writing about third world women and their narratives, Going Global...
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It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home...
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Co-authored with Sebastien Rouxel Baked goods that are marvels of ingenuity and simplicity from the famed Bouchon Bakery The tastes of childhood have always been a...
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Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women's Novels
Co-edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Therese Saliba and Paula Sunderman. A collection of original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary Arab...
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Co-edited by Lisa Suhair Majaj and Amal Amireh. The first-ever book-length collection of essays on the Lebanese/French/American author and artist Etel Adnan,...
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Buy a copy and see for yourself what everyone is talking about. Once you read just one of Ms. Roger's books, I can assure you that you'll be a fan... Diana Coyle...
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Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery
Mailer opines that Lee Harvey Oswald was a sincere Marxist, a nihilist and an inveterate liar who was motivated to assassinate John F. Kennedy in order to shake up...
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The Gospel According to the Son
Norman Mailer writes a novel about Jesus’ life. Is God speaking to me? Jesus asks. Or am I hearing voices? If the voices are from God, why has He chosen me as His...
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Black Friday
The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson’s classic superthriller, Black Friday. A courageous...
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Twins
In this fascinating book, New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright recounts the decades of research on twins and their similarites to shed light on how our genes influence...
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2nd Chance
2nd Chance reconvenes the Women’s Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their...
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Lake House
The flying children from When the Wind Blows are back at last for a thriller that tests the limits of the imagination—it’s a suspense story that really soars.
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Sam's Letters to Jennifer
Laced with mystery, Sam’s Letters To Jennifer combines two unforgettable love stories in a novel that’s absolutely impossible to put down. Jennifer returns to the...
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The Midnight Club
John Stefanovich, a tough New York cop, has one mission in life—to nab Alexandre St. Germain, the most treacherous and powerful member of the Midnight Club—a secret...
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The Thomas Berryman Number
The most terrifyingly efficient hit man alive stalks his biggest prize yet—the country’s leading African-American citizen, the mayor of Nashville. In a desperate...
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The Anatomist
The classic medical text known as Gray’s Anatomy is one of the most famous books ever written. Now, on the 150th anniversary of its publication, acclaimed science...
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