Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is...
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Author: Kotkin, StephenSummary:
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Author: Kotkin, StephenSummary:
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world It has the quality of myth: A poor cobbler's son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the...
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Author: Descartes, ReneSummary:
A landmark in the history of thought, Rene Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical...
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Author: Balzac, Honoré deSummary:
At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot. Once a well-heeled merchant, Goriot was--at...
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Author: Griffin, W. E. B.Summary:
The Office of Strategic Services has now been tasked with convincing the Axis powers that the Allied forces will not be invading Europe via France's beaches. Layers of secrecy shroud the operation...
Genre: War fiction -
Author: Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
In this classic, Professor Challenger summons Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and E.D. Malone to his sitting room with one unusual request: bring your own oxygen.
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Farmer, Philip JoséSummary:
Much has transpired since Earth's denizens found themselves resurrected along the shores of a river 22 million miles long. With the truth of this strange river's creators, the Ethicals, still...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Farmer, Philip JoséSummary:
Sir Francis Burton and his band have challenged the mysterious leaders of Riverworld and now control the mechanism that once held them in its sway. But the tower stronghold awaits, and the realm...
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Author: Farmer, Philip JoséSummary:
A great battle is brewing as extraordinary characters--including Samuel Clemens, U.S. Grant, and Cyrano de Bergerac--find themselves on the verge of discovering the origins of Riverworld.
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Sawyer, Robert J.Summary:
Robert Sawyer has won many awards for his science fiction, which is praised for its blend of high-tech mystery and suspenseful pacing. An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has...
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Author: Krauss, NicoleSummary:
A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its drawers, another man discovers a long-kept...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
Author: Balzac, Honoré deSummary:
Lisbeth Fischer feels she's been wronged--though much of what she perceives may only reside in her imagination. Seeking vengeance against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline, she leverages...
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Author: McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Professor Dr. Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, of the Institute of Romance Philology in the Bavarian city of Regensburg, finds that life is very difficult these days. His academic rival has been...
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Author: Stross, CharlesSummary:
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories