Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain...
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Author: Greenblatt, StephenSummary: -
Author: Cook, Thomas H.Summary:
Cook's novel begins after the 9/11 attacks, when researcher Paul Crane sits down to interview elderly New York City resident Thomas Danforth. But Thomas' thoughts drift to a different era, when a...
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction), Spy fiction -
Author: Edsel, Robert M.Summary:
Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the...
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Author: Lawrence, IainSummary:An account--from the point of view of a pony--of what it was like to be part of Captain Robert Scott's 1910 expedition to reach the South Pole before rival Roald Amundsen.
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In this fantastically macabre tale, the separate halves of a nobleman split in two by a cannonball go on to pursue their own independent adventures In a battle against the Turks, Viscount Medardo...
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Author: Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn...
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Author: Ignatius, DavidSummary:
The race to build the first quantum computer heats up in the newest high-tech spy thriller from best-selling author David Ignatius. A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a...
Genre: Thrillers (Fiction), Spy fiction -
Author: Patterson, James, Roughan, HowardSummary:Attorney Trevor Mann may have finally hit his stride, but when his journalist girlfriend Claire's newest story leads to a violent confrontation, Trevor's newly peaceful life is shattered. Chasing...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
Cass County, Minnesota: A sheriff's deputy steps out of a diner on a rainy summer evening, and a few minutes later, he's lying dead in the mud. When BCA agent Kirk Stevens arrives on the scene, he...
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Author: Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new...
Genre: Creative nonfiction, Essays, Literary arts -
Author: Seay, MartinSummary:
A globetrotting, time-bending, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of Cloud Atlas Set in three cities in three eras, The Mirror Thief calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in...
Genre: Historical fiction, Epic fiction -
Author: Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
The first single-volume history of Istanbul in decades: a biography of the city at the center of civilizations past and present. For more than two millennia Istanbul has stood at the crossroads of...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
They are the victims no one has ever cared about, until now. Agents Stevens and Windermere return in the blistering new crime novel from the fast-rising, multi-award-nominated suspense star. She...
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Author: Laukkanen, OwenSummary:
The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction. The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown...
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Author: Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume...
Genre: Autobiographical fiction