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  • Robert's Books 3:55 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by Gene B. Williams. http://bit.ly/z4vHI

    This illustrated guide shows prospective home buyers just how easy it is to design homes to fit their exact needs and wants, while saving thousands of dollars in architectural fees

     
  • Robert's Books 3:52 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by Herbert Yardley. http://bit.ly/4P85b

    Zest, blood, sex and a tough wry humour reminiscent of Raymond Chandler.—Ian Fleming

     
  • Robert's Books 3:50 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by Christopher Miller. http://bit.ly/13upsN

    A cranky, curmudgeonly composer is the ostensible protagonist of this hilarious debut novel, a sendup of classical music conventions that begins when the obscure Simon Silber convinces his new biographer, first-person narrator Norman Fayreweather Jr. to elevate Silber’s musical status by chronicling his career as if he were already famous.—Publisher’s Weekly

     
  • Robert's Books 3:44 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by James Wood. http://bit.ly/gIQeK

    Thomas Bunting, the narrator of this slyly comic novel, is trying and failing to finish a Ph.D in philosophy. He spends most days in his pajamas, avoiding any task—bill-paying, dishwashing—that evokes the “one long liegedom” of adulthood.—New Yorker

     
  • Robert's Books 3:42 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein. http://bit.ly/b41Te

    One of the fundamental texts of twentieth-century philosophy – short, bold, cryptic, and remarkable in its power to stir the imagination of philosophers and non-philosophers alike.—Michael Frayn

     
  • Robert's Books 3:37 pm on 30 May 2009 Permalink  

    by Colin Thubron. http://bit.ly/ksaXq

    In Siberia explores a region of astonishments, where “white cranes dance on the permafrost, where a great city floats lost among the ice floes, where mammoths sleep under glaciers.”

     
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