It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the...
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Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:
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Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:
Alan Lewrie, midshipman aboard the frigate Desperate, has helped defeat the French Capricieuse off St. Kitts, but has an even greater cause for celebration: His commission as lieutenant and...
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Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:
Alan Lewrie heads for Macao, Canton, and the South China Sea. There, battles on land and sea await him, as he faces thousands of savages led by their decadent French masters.
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with...
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Author: Lee, John R., Hopkins, Virginia, Zava, DavidSummary:
Strategies for preventing a devastating disease that affects millions of women.
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
The Firstborn have returned Bisesa Dutt to the Earth of 2037, where scientists have discovered an anomaly in the sun's core that reveals a chilling alien plan to destroy Earth's life through...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
The mysterious Firstborn have long sought to stop the advance of human civilization. This time, they have sent a "Q-bomb" speeding toward Earth--a device that human scientists can barely...
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Author: García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
Tells of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Alternately reverential and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece brings a new...
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Author: Kerr, PhilipSummary:
"Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent." Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a...
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Author: Follett, Ken.Summary:
Edge of Eternity, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile...
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Author: Bolaño, RobertoSummary:
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
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Author: Macintyre, BenSummary:
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in...
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Author: Nix, GarthSummary:
A short story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of...
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Author: Innes, Robert Alexander, Anderson, Kim, Cariou, Warren, Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika, Hokowhitu, Brendan, Justice, Daniel Heath, Scofield, Gregory, Sinclair, Niigaanwewidam James, McKegney, Sam, Antone, Bob, Borell, Phillip, Minor, Kimberly, Van Camp, Richard, Morgensen, Scott L., Henry, Robert, Piché, Allison, Sky, Sasha, Sneider, Leah, Sutherland, Erin, Swift, John, Tatonetti, Lisa, Lee, Lloyd L., Richards Jr., William Kahalepuna, Kaulukukui Jr., Thomas Ka’auwaiSummary:
What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies? Indigenous peoples of the Americas and beyond come from traditions of gender equity, complementarity, and the sacred feminine,...
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