Six months on a whaler with a cruel captain and no land in sight is too much for Tom. When the vessel cruises into the primitive Marquesas, he and his friend jump ship. They plan to hide out with...
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Author: Melville, HermanSummary:
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
Alternate history author Turtledove offers a new vision of America after World War I. In 1920, as veterans question the very nation they fought for, socialist Upton Sinclair challenges Teddy...
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The utter devastation of global war continues to spread, driven by new weapons and old hatreds. The United States is deadlocked--battling Canada and Great Britain to the north and the Confederate...
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The Great Depression leaves the USA and CSA vulnerable. Though victors in the War of Secession, the CSA still reels from losing the Great War. Powerful and bloated by prosperity, the USA ignores...
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
A generation after the South wins the Civil War, it annexes critical territory in Mexico. Outraged, the United States declares total war. This time the American army faces danger on all sides --...
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
War is brewing yet again as the U.S.A. struggles to occupy Canada, and the C.S.A. begins forcing blacks into concentration camps.
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Author: Turtledove, HarrySummary:
The second in this series tells a story of a world torn apart by war and strife, the Confederate States of America ally with Britain and France, while the United States sides with Germany in a...
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Author: Vida, NinaSummary:
Joseph Kimmel is heading to San Antonio to settle his deceased brother's estate but becomes stranded on the vast open prairie when his horse is stolen. He is rescued by an egocentric Alsatian...
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Author: Roth, PhilipSummary:
The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-...
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Author: Roth, PhilipSummary:
After 11 years of isolation in his New England mountain refuge, Zuckerman returns to New York City and makes three important connections that threaten his carefully protected sense of isolation....
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Author: Theroux, PaulSummary:
Hoping to get away, a man suffering from writer's block washes up at the rundown Hotel Honolulu, where he becomes the manager after the hotel's boozy owner fires himself. Hawaii is supposed to be...
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Author: Dunning, JohnSummary:
Presents a mystery introducing Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway.
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Author: McGarrity, MichaelSummary:
Retired detective Kevin Kerney searches for answers to a 60-year-old feud and a modern paramilitary movement heat up in the rugged terrain of windswept New Mexico.
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Author: Bear, GregSummary:
The discovery of concealed remains in a mass grave in Russia forces top scientists to question everything they believe about human origins. For molecular biologist Kaye Lang and "virus hunter"...
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Author: Berenson, AlexSummary:
After proving his mettle obliterating an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, CIA operative John Wells must return to that strife-ridden land to fight a new crop of evil-doers--including deadly...