In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mount Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two...
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Author: Jenkins, McKaySummary:Genre: True adventure stories
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Author: Jenkins, McKaySummary:
In 1913, two Catholic priests set out to the Canadian Arctic to convert isolated Inuit's. Three days after reaching their destination, the two men were murdered. It took years for Western...
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Author: Zesch, ScottSummary:
Based on the life experiences of his great-great-great-uncle who was kidnapped by Indians as a ten-year-old, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier and offers one of the few...
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Author: Ross, AlexSummary:
The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of spring...
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Author: Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
Edgar-nominated author David Rosenfelt returns with his hero, Andy Carpenter, who must defend a football player accused of murder. The Giants' running back Kenny Schilling stands accused of...
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Author: Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
"There is nothing like a golden retriever. I know, I know, it's a big planet with a lot of wonderful things, but golden retrievers are the absolute best. Mine is named Tara . . . The only problem...
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Author: Rosenfelt, DavidSummary:
Clever plot twists, deft legal maneuverings, and keen wit are hallmarks of Rosenfelt's third follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut novel, featuring millionaire attorney, Andy Carpenter, who is...
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Author: Brown, DeeSummary:
Dee Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Author: Twain, MarkSummary:
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Author: Faulkner, WilliamSummary:
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic...
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Author: Niven, LarrySummary:
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson's puppeteers--strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens--discovered this ''...
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Author: King, StephenSummary:
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the...
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Author: Jiles, PauletteSummary:
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Tom Hanks National Book Award Finalist--FictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of...
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Author: Ludlum, RobertSummary:
Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann...
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Author: Hornfischer, James D.Summary:
One of the finest WWII naval action narratives in recent years, this book follows in the footsteps of Flags of Our Fathers, creating a microcosm of the war's American Navy destroyers....