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Big Brother
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; US$ 21.74When Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at her local Iowa airport, she literally doesn't recognize him. In the four years since the grown siblings last saw one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? Worse, Edison's slovenly habits, appalling diet, and know-it-all monologues drive her... more...
The Post-Birthday World
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 11.99In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin , delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future... more...
Game Control
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively in... more...
A Perfectly Good Family
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other... more...
Checker and the Derailleurs
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Beautiful and charismatic, nineteen-year-old Checker Secretti is the most gifted and original drummer that the club-goers of Astoria, Queens, have ever heard. When he plays, conundrums seem to solve themselves, brilliant thoughts spring to mind, and couples fall in love. The members of his band, The Derailleurs, are passionately devoted to their guiding... more...
The Female of the Species
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible?and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young graduate... more...
So Much for That
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 7.99?Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters? A highly engrossing novel.? ? San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver ( The Post-Birthday World, We Need to Talk About Kevin ), comes a searing, deeply humane novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family?s... more...
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Profile 2006; US$ 12.78Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who tried to befriend him. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood and Kevin's horrific rampage in a series of startlingly... more...
The Post-Birthday World
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99American children's book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a secure, settled life in London with her smart, loyal, disciplined partner, Lawrence?until the night she finds herself inexplicably drawn to kissing another man, a passionate, extravagant, top-ranked snooker player. Two competing alternate futures hinge on this single kiss, as Irina's decision?to... more...
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 25.00That neither nature nor nurture bears exclusive responsibility for a child's character is self-evident. But generalizations about genes are likely to provide cold comfort if it's your own child who just opened fire on his feellow algebra students and whose class photographwith its unseemly grinis shown on the evening news coast-to-coast.... more...









