Book type: fiction (6146)


1291.

Dragons of Summer Flame : The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman EN

Rating: 3.5 (6 votes)
Description:
Primed for a battle between good and evil, Raistlin, the corrupt mage, returns to the Dragonlance series, along with a new generation of characters, the inheritors of the fabled Heroes of the Lance. Reissue.

1292.

Dragons of Winter Night : The Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman EN

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Description:
Featuring the stunning art and design that graced the cover of the paperback edition, this hardcover version is a follow-up to the release of the first title of the series, "Dragons of Autumn Twilight, " earlier this year.


1294.

Dram Shop by Émile Zola EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Focuses on the Paris taverns, presenting a tragedy of working-class people in slums. The work was influenced by theories of heredity/experimental science. The behaviour of the families is shown to be conditioned by environment/inherited characteristics, chiefly drunkenness and mental instability.

1295.

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney EN

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Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
The heartbreaking story of five generations of young people from a single African-and-American family pursuing an elusive dream of freedom.

1296.

Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
A previously banned work based on a true scandal finds an impoverished village targeted by a blood-selling operation that leads to a catastrophic outbreak of AIDS and decimates an entire community.

1297.

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
The Chia family experiences a decline in fortune during the Ch'ing dynasty.

1298.

Dream on Monkey Mountain : And Other Plays by Derek Walcott EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorize... continue

1299.

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
Description:
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism ... continue

1300.

Dreams Beyond the Shore by Tamika Gibson EN

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Description:
"Seventeen-year-old Chelsea March and was pretty satisfied with her life. Until recently. Willing to play the dutiful daughter as her father's bid to become Prime Minister of their island home brings her family into intense public scrutiny, Chelsea is swept along by the strong tidal wave of politics and becomes increasingly disturbed by her father's duplicity. She finds a reprieve when she meets Kyron, a kindred spirit encased in low riding blue jeans. The two share a bond as he too struggles to get beyond his father's shadow. But when Chelsea discovers an even darker more sinister side to her... continue