The Implacable Order of Things: A Novel
The Implacable Order of Things: The Implacable Order of Things is a story told in an irrestistible and mesmerizing voice. After being captivated page after page by strange and haunting happenings, one finds it difficult to leave such a mythical place [... more]
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Woodsburner: A Novel
Author: John Pipkin Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780385528658 ISBN: 0385528655 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2009-04-28 Release Date: 2009-04-28 [... more]
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Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Ackroyd Brief Lives)
A wonderfully concise biography...: ... and history of the late 14th century. Ackroyd is more than just an excellent writer and distiller of information. He is clearly well-versed in the significance of Chaucer's writings and impact upon English [... more]
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the ...
Slightly Superficial But Extremely Engaging: With BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN writer Marion Meade takes the reader on a decade-long tour of the lives of four women who helped make the 1920s roar: Edna Ferber (1895-1968); Zelda Sayer Fitzgerald (1900-1948) [... more]
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Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: ...
Entrepreneurship 101: Everything I ever needed to know about successful entrepreneurship I learned from SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION. 1) It begins with a creative product, not in the search for a way to make money (sorry, Mr. Sinatra). 2) It begins with a [... more]
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Morality Play
Taught tale well told: MP is Name of the Rose writ small -- less verbose and learned perhaps, but equally vivid and authentic. It is a story of intricate turnings and great suspense. Through it all, Unsworth evokes the world of 14th century Britain in [... more]
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The Devil's Footprints: A Novel
tense horror thriller: The town of Coldhaven in Scotland was never good for the Gardiners; father, mother and child dies by the mother's hand although the son didn't know what the townsfolk were doing to his parents and they were ignorant to what the [... more]
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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War ...
Amazon.com Review: Politician, man about town, war hero, and murderer: Dan Sickles led many lives, some of them improbable, turning disaster to advantage. Thomas Keneally, whose novels have been populated by heroes and outlaws alike, vividly captures [... more]
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Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
A Brief, Essential Biography: Eventually humans understood that there were physical laws that governed the universe, and that these laws could be made mathematically precise and could be verified. No one person enabled this understanding more than Isaac [... more]
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The Implacable Order of Things: A Novel
The Implacable Order of Things: The Implacable Order of Things is a story told in an irrestistible and mesmerizing voice. After being captivated page after page by strange and haunting happenings, one finds it difficult to leave such a mythical place [... more]
$17.95
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Newton: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
A Brief, Essential Biography: Eventually humans understood that there were physical laws that governed the universe, and that these laws could be made mathematically precise and could be verified. No one person enabled this understanding more than Isaac [... more]
$21.95
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The Fourth Treasure
Beautifully written and illustrated!: Todd Shimoda's "The Fourth Treasure" is simply the most beautiful book to come across my desk in years. The story is innovative and inventive, and the illustrations add depth and insight to the narrative of [... more]
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