Growing up in genteel poverty in 17th-century France, young d'Artagnan dreams of becoming a hero and sets out to join the elite company of the King's trusted Musketeers. Beautiful and deadly women...
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Author: Dumas, AlexandreSummary:
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Author: Joyce, JamesSummary:
Joyce records the events of a single day, June 16, 1904, in Dublin, Ireland, with its three principal characters--Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Molly.
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Author: Bernstein, HarrySummary:
An invisible wall ran down the center of the street, dividing the Jewish families from the Christians. This is the enchanting true story of a forbidden love affair that would break down those...
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Author: Grant, AndrewSummary:
Set up for a murder by the NYPD, Royal Navy intelligence operative David Trevellyan must act alone to clear his name. With no idea who's a friend and who's a foe, he penetrates deep into a huge...
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The spartans : the world of the warrior-heroes of ancient greece, from utopia to crisis and collapse
Author: Cartledge, PaulSummary:The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since. Paul Cartledge engagingly examines the rise and fall of this singular...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
Earth's timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
The Firstborn have returned Bisesa Dutt to the Earth of 2037, where scientists have discovered an anomaly in the sun's core that reveals a chilling alien plan to destroy Earth's life through...
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Author: Clarke, Arthur C., Baxter, StephenSummary:
The mysterious Firstborn have long sought to stop the advance of human civilization. This time, they have sent a "Q-bomb" speeding toward Earth--a device that human scientists can barely...
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Author: Lowry, MalcolmSummary:
On a single, fateful day in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, 1938, a former British consul wrestles with his demons as his wife tries to rescue their marriage from his drinking problem.
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Author: García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
Tells of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Alternately reverential and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece brings a new...
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Author: Doctorow, Cory, Stross, CharlesSummary:
At the dusk of the twenty-first century, the splintery metaconsciousness of the solar system sometimes spams Earth's networks with plans for disastrously disruptive technologies. It is the job of...
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Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:
Alan Lewrie, midshipman aboard the frigate Desperate, has helped defeat the French Capricieuse off St. Kitts, but has an even greater cause for celebration: His commission as lieutenant and...
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Author: Lambdin, DeweySummary:
Alan Lewrie heads for Macao, Canton, and the South China Sea. There, battles on land and sea await him, as he faces thousands of savages led by their decadent French masters.
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Author: Kerr, PhilipSummary:
"Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent." Being a Berlin cop in...
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with...