The Last Samurai

The Last SamuraiHelen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'" (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has nothing to do with Tom Cruise? Sibylla, an American at Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one night stand. High

Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory

Kirkus Review - Children 03/01/2007 pg

"Christine Watkins has done a tremendous work

It is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles

We're tackling head-scratching--sometimes serious and sometimes totally wacky--questions whose answers aren't so black and white

Author: Emily St John Mandel

000 miles away

She has a talent for learning languages and is always on the search for the next place she can travel and flex her words

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when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans

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which he began working on in 2001