The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Hardcover: Jun 2003
Paperback: Apr 2004
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present.
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Mar 2022
Klara and the Sun is a magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
Knocking on Heaven's Door
: The Path to a Better Way of Death
by Katy Butler
Hardcover: Sep 2013
Paperback: Jun 2014
Knocking on Heaven's Door is a visionary map through the labyrinth of a broken and morally adrift medical system. It will inspire the necessary and difficult conversations we all need to have with loved ones as it illuminates a path to a better way ...
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
Hardcover: Aug 2003
Paperback: May 2004
A black farmer, bootmaker and former slave becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves, in this ambitious, luminously written novel that ranges seamlessly between the past and future and back again to the present. Excerpt ...
Kockroach
: A Novel
by Tyler Knox
Hardcover: Dec 2006
Paperback: Mar 2008
It is the mid-1950s; in a fleabag hotel off Times Square Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of all things, a human. As Kockroach, led by his primitive desires and insectile amorality, ...
Krakatoa
: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Hardcover: Apr 2003
Paperback: Apr 2004
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
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