Sharpe has lost his command but is determined to win it back in an assault on the fortress town of Badajoz. Heroism and action in the Napolenoic wars by a masterful storyteller.
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Author: CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
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Author: Alexander, KentSummary:
A gripping insider account of the terrorist bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games that captured the world's attention, and the heroic security guard-turned-suspect at the heart of it allOn July...
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Author: Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSummary:
Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's...
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Author: Spring, JustinSummary:
A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century FranceDuring les trente glorieuses--a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of...
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Author: Wagamese, RichardSummary:
"Life sometimes is hard. There are challenges. There are difficulties. There is pain. As a younger man I sought to avoid them and only ever caused myself more of the same. These days I choose...
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Author: Plamondon, ÉricSummary:
Writer Richard Brautigan was a counter-cultural icon of the 1960s. In Mayonnaise, the second novel of Éric Plamondon's 1984 Trilogy, narrator Gabriel Rivages pieces together Brautigan's...
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You may recognise the sound when a bored dinner guest begins playing with a wineglass. Once popularly known as the Angelic Organ, the Glass Harp, the Glass Armonica, or the Singing Glasses, an...
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Author: Terry GoodkindSummary:
Fantasy fiction. A short novel of immense scope that shows Terry Goodkind's storytelling powers at their very best. In the days of the war against Panis Rahl, a young woman presents the first...
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Author: Cannings, RichardSummary:
In these delightful meditations, biologist and bird lover Richard Cannings weaves stories of his personal encounters with birds into fascinating descriptions of their behavior, anatomy, and...
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Author: Hammond, RichardSummary:
Gripping account by Richard Hammond of life before and after his terrifying high-speed car crash.
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Author: Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their...
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Author: Koeppel, Dan.Summary:
When the author's father Richard was 11 years old, he spotted a Brown Thrasher, and his fascination with birds began. Now a "Big Lister," Richard is one of only 10 or so people to have recorded...
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Author: Bowen, MichaelSummary:
Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, D.C. But when one such ambitious young...
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Author: Bowen, MichaelSummary:
A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses. And now a very important document has gone missing: a...
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Author: Hanrahan, MauraSummary:
The Doryman follows the true story of Richard Hanrahan from age nine when he is ripped away from the safety and comfort of the schoolroom to the seasonal shore fishery on Newfoundland’s...