Relations are strained between the planet Werel's native people and its colony of stranded Earthmen, but they share a common genetic heritage as well as common enemies. Will they join forces or be...
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Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:Genre: Fantasy fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Bloch, R. HowardSummary:The Bayeux Tapestry is the world's most famous textile--an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of history's...
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Author:Summary:"A portrait of American food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional--from the lost...
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Author: Lester, TobySummary:Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo da Vinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and a square. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various...
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Author: McCarry, CharlesSummary:Five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them is Miernik, a Polish scientist who might be the leader of a terror force that...
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Author: Card, Orson ScottSummary:Young Alvin Maker is born into an alternative frontier America, where folk magic is real and he himself is gifted with power. But he must learn to use it wisely, for dark forces are arrayed...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: McGilligan, PatrickSummary:A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater.
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Author: Penzler, Otto, King, Stephen, Lee, Tanith, Simmons, Dan, Stoker, Bram, Gaiman, NeilSummary:The Vampire Archives is the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once you're in its clutches there's no escape. From the...
Genre: Horror fiction, Short stories -
Author: Lewis, MichaelSummary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Moneyball" and "Liar's poker" comes the story of a young man's rise to football stardom. The young man at the center...
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Author: Woods, StuartSummary:
Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is back-now as President of the United States-in this fifth book of the New York Times bestselling series that began with Chiefs....
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Author: Viesturs, Ed.Summary:
A breathtaking audiobook by the first American to climb the fourteen highest mountains in the world. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world...