From the acclaimed author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams comes a lyrical memoir of Memphis from the 1930s through the 1960s: the music and the racism, the early days of the...
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Author: Lightman, Alan P.Summary:
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Author: Smith, Nicholas SansburySummary:
Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his Delta Force Team, codenamed Ghost, are called in when a top secret Medical Corps research facility goes dark. Soon they are facing their deadliest enemy yet--a...
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Author: Smith, Nicholas SansburySummary:
Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and Dr. Kate Lovato race to save humanity.
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Author: Binet, LaurentSummary:
Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies--struck by a laundry van--after lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. But was it an accident or murder?
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Author: Moers, WalterSummary:
Rumo is a little Wolperting, a creature somewhere between a deer and a dog, who will one day become a great hero. Armed with his talking sword, he must fight his way through the Overworld and the...
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Author: Collier, James Lincoln, Collier, ChristopherSummary:
Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with...
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Author: Burk, RachelleSummary:
In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education and spent his childhood days in his father's shop, where he developed the...
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Author: Morton, AndrewSummary:
At first glance, Angelina Jolie might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, drug use, etc. Yet mysteries remain: What went on in her brief, impulsive...
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Author: Dubus, AndreSummary:
This volume brings together Andre Dubus' third and fourth collections of short stories and novellas--Finding a Girl in America and The Times Are Never So Bad--with a thought-provoking new...
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Author: Lovecraft, H. P.Summary:
H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of...
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The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have enthralled generations of readers--and writers. Now Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger have assembled a stellar group of contemporary...