THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS chronicles the dramatic story behind the realization of the centuries-old dream of creating a ship passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In the style that has made him a favorite of readers and reviewers alike, McCullough weaves astonishing engineering feats, ext ...
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In Rome in 1635, Grantville's diplomatic team, headed by Sharon Nichols, has come to a standstill in their negotiations with Pope Urban VIII, whle an ambitious Cardinal Borja launches his sinister schemes, mysterious agitators are stirring up trouble, Spain's armies prepare for an attack on the King ...
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Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapl ...
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A daring adventure based on a true story about a group of Norwegian children who smuggled nine million dollars in gold past Nazi sentries during World War II. "A story of courage and wits and grim determination."--"The New York Times."
Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a corrupt world where no one is what they seem, where her rules for survival no longer apply. This is a ...
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The sequel to Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills continues the story of U.S. Marine Corps sniper Carlos Hathcock and his accomplishments as a veteran of the Vietnam War, detailing his most difficult and dangerous missions. Reprint.
Oskar Schindler, a German-Catholic industrialist, erects a concentration camp-cum-factory in order to employ and hide thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Movie tie-in.
While fishing on a rowboat, Adam Pelko sees Japanese fighter planes racing across the sky and dropping bombs on the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, and when he gets back to shore, he sees that his father's battleship, the U.S.S. Arizona, is gone and begins to fear the worse.
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the book's publication, this new Laurel edition of the classic autobiography features an Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., today's most influential black intellectual, offers a fresh perspective on what Douglass's book means today in his Introduction to thi ...
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Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling history The New York Times<BR>called "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down"<BR>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the sy ...
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As part of a Spanish expedition to the New World, a Jesuit seminarian witnesses the enslavement and exploitation of the Mayas and his own seduction by greed and ambition.
First published in 1958, this raw, devastatingly haunting Holocaust memoir is Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel's best known work. After the German army invades, they first confine the Jewish community of Sighet, Transylvania, into a ghetto, and then pack them into cattle cars bound for the conce ...
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The frank, "get real" approach of this diet book may be just right for those who have tried and tried without success to lose weight and keep it off. As the title indicates, the language is salty as Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin tell readers just what they must get rid of in their everyday eating: ...
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In a tale of Civil War carnage, Bushrod Carter and his battle-weary mates encounter fresh Union troops outside Franklin, Tenn. one fine November afternoon.
The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival, even though one-third of the actual screenplay had been cut out. This completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Hansberry's script, and a testime ...
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Growing up in South Africa during the apartheid era, young Peekay understood at an early age that learning English well would be an asset in his later years and so, despite growing up to be the welterweight champion of the world, used the power of his words to make the changes he deemed important wh ...
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After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Recalled to service in Israel after terrorists steal secrets about his past, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. By the author of The Kill Artist and A Death in Vienna. Reprint.
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. By the author of The Zombie Survival Guid ...
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Exploring the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life, Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. The novel was first published in 1925 by the same Hogarth press that Woolf and her husband founded.
When she is sold away from her family, Moinette, the daughter of an African mother and an unknown white father, begins to prepare herself for an escape to freedom, journeying through a world of brutality, sexual violence, loss, and struggle to find her way out of the bonds of slavery to discover the ...
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Magda, a member of a revolutionary group, returns to Uruguay when she learns that her lover has been released from prison. This novel was the winner of the 1997 Milkweed Prize for Fiction.
When an evil hawk turns the peaceful cardinals and blue jays of Stone-Run Forest into archenemies, the battle between them rages for many years, but after the warring parties discover the hawk's deception, the cardinals and blue jays turn to the Swordbird in the hopes of reuniting and bringing peace ...
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DISPATCHES is considered by many to be one of the finest nonfiction books on the Vietnam War. Assigned in 1967 to cover the war by Esquire magazine, Michael Herr filed reports on his own schedule and without deadlines. His memoir, DISPATCHES, was published several years later and is based on those r ...
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<p><em>New York Times</em> bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters is at her stylish and suspenseful best in a richly woven tale of greed, treachery, and murder set against the tumultuous backdrop of wartime intrigue.</p><p>A new year, 1917, is dawning, and the Great War that ravages the world sho ...
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Inspired by Mark Twain's classic tales, a debut novel explores the mysterious life and strange death of Huckleberry Finn's infamous father, describing Finn's fearsome father, the Judge; his brother, the sickly, sycophantic Will; Bliss, a reclusive, blind moonshiner; his mistress Mary, a former slave ...
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<p align="left">At dawn on Easter morning 1343, a marauding band of French raiders arrives by boat to ambush the coastal village of Hookton. To brave young Thomas, the only survivor, the horror of the attack is epitomized by the casual savagery of a particular black-clad knight. Thomas vows to aveng ...
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