The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the ...
 Amazon.com Review: As a sophomore in college, I desperately wanted to major in theoretical linguistics, but I knew only three languages, and I was advised that this was insufficient for the major. Things might have been different if this book were [... more]
$18.95
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Golden Country
Amazon.com Review: Jennifer Gilmore's work has appeared in several magazines and journals, but Golden Country is her debut novel, and an auspicious one it is. Gilmore's story follows the lives of three immigrants from the 1920s to the '60s in New York: [... more]
$14.00
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A Conspiracy of Paper
Amazon.com Review: A fool and his money are soon parted--and nowhere so quickly as in the stock market, it would seem. In David Liss's ambitious first novel, A Conspiracy of Paper, the year is 1719 and the place London, where human greed, apparently, [... more]
$16.50
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Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant ...
Well Done: This book is about the growth of the garment workers' unions and the place within that growth that the Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe took. It was well-written, well-researched. Were I a history professor looking for a informative [... more]
$19.95
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The House on the Strand (Virago Modern Classics)
Spoiled pleasures: Like her spoiled protagonist in this novel Dick Young, Daphne du Maurier was haunted by the past of her native Cornwall and could not seem to let it go. THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND, often considered the major book of Du Maurier's later [... more]
$16.50
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Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects ...
Fantastic book on Renaissance art and architecture.: This is possibly one of the best reads for anyone studying or interested in Renaissance art and architecture. Vasari lived in the times of the people he describes and knew many of them personally. He [... more]
$65.00
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Threads of Time Volume 6
TIME DREAMER: Moon Bin Kim is a student in 1997 Seoul, South Korea. His father has got him an apartment and sends him money as he needs it, but is lacking in the love and warmth department, to the extent that Moon wonders why his parents even had him. In [... more]
$9.99
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Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill
fascinating: I know very little about history, so I really have nothing to say about whether this book is historically accurate or not. For me, that's beside the point. Bad reader, I know, particularly when it's a fictionalized biography of an actual [... more]
$14.00
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The Annals of the World
Master Books commissioned this important literary work to be updated from the 17th-century original Latin manuscript to modern English and made available to the general public for the first time. In its pages can be found the fascinating history of the [... more]
$34.99
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World Without End
Amazon.com Review: Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of [... more]
$59.95
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The Tale of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix P)
Cute but Slow: Beatrix Potter, successful author, has bought a farm in the Lake District of England. She loves the area and is hoping to use it to set up an independent life from her parents. She expects peace and quite in the village of Near Sawrey. But [... more]
$6.99
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River Song
Good follow-up to ýWinterkillý: "River Song" picks up where Lesley's previous novel, "Winterkill," left off. Unfortunately, it's not as strong as its predecessor, since some of the situations the characters become [... more]
$14.00
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