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Set in 1955, the novel focuses on the hopes and aspirations of Frank and April Wheeler, self-assured Connecticut suburbanites who see themselves as very different from their neighbors in the Revolutionary Hill Estates. In the opening scene, April stars in an embarrassingly bad amateur dramatic production of The Petrified Forest:She was working...

The Reader (Der Vorleser) is an award-winning novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink. It was published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States.The story is told in three parts by the main character, Michael Berg. Each part takes place in a different time period in the past.Part I begins in an unnamed West German city...

Having read all of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. The Host was on my most anxiously anticipated list of books to read.The Host begins with the insertion of an alien into a human's body. Some of the aliens were afraid of using this particular body because Melanie Stryder was part of the resistance...

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (2008) is the first book by David Wroblewski.Edgar comes from a line of dog breeders. After buying a farm, his grandfather rents out the farmland and starts dog breeding. He and his wife have two sons, Edgar's father (Gar) and Claude. Claude leaves the farm and Gar stays on and carries on the family business....

A Mercy takes place in the 1680's - the early days of the slave trade in the Americas.Jacob is a trader who takes a small slave girl-Florens - in partial payment for a debt. The mother of the child begs him to take the girl, not herself. It is this act that has consequences for all the lives that are intertwined with that of Florens'. Florens...

Män Som Hatar Kvinnor (renamed in the English translation as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is an award-winning novel by the late Swedish author and social conscience journalist Stieg LarssonA middle-aged journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, publishes the magazine Millennium in Stockholm. He is hired one day by Henrik Vanger, the aged former CEO...

New York Times bestselling author CJ Box’s novels have been called “red hot,” (Booklist) “an edge-of-your-seat read,” (Omaha World-Herald) and “unforgettable, powerful.” (Bookreporter). Now, he delivers a novel that steals your sleep as much as it wrenches your heart. It’s a novel that could be anyone’s worst nightmare…Jack and Melissa McGuane...

Unaccustomed Earth is the latest book from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. After Interpreter of Maladies, the Pulitzer Prize winning book, this is her second collection of short stories. Just like her other books, Unaccustomed Earth is also a reflection of life of two separate cultures, and how people cope with each other.The...

Daemon by Daniel Suarez (aka Leinad Zeraus), released in 2006.The story begins with legendary computer game designer Matthew Sobol's untimely death. At the time of his passing, he had a program running that was scanning obituaries on the Internet. That program coupled with his premature death sets in motion a series of other programs that...

The film produced, written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, based on Ib Melchior's short story "The Racer", and stars Jason Statham in the lead role.In 2012, the economy of the United States has fallen into disaster, unemployment, and crime is on the rise, and private corporations run most prisons across the nation for profit. The movie...

During a scientific expedition in Iceland, visionary scientist Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and their beautiful local guide, Hannah (Anita Briem), are unexpectedly trapped in a cave from which their only escape is to go deeper and deeper into the depths of the Earth. Traveling through never-before-seen...