What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the École Nationale d'Administration, who trained some of France's best and brightest as future prime ministers and...
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Author: May, PeterSummary: -
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: Shel, MikeSummary:
The days of adventure are passed for Auric Mante. Retired to the countryside and isolated with his scars and riches, he no longer delves into forbidden ruins seeking dark wisdom and treasure. But...
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Author: Al-Khalili, JimSummary:British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili here unveils the Arabic legacy of science and philosophy--a legacy that has long been hidden from the West.
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Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:Alain de Botton draws on the work of six of the world's most uncommonly brilliant thinkers to offer this panoply of accessible, entertaining wisdom to guide us through our most common problems....
Genre: Philosophy -
Author: Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Two English people take a road trip from an unnamed African capitol to their enclave. The further they travel, the more they cross the line separating privileged outsiders from horrified victims...
Genre: Road fiction -
Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a...
Genre: Art and architecture, Philosophy -
Author: De Botton, AlainSummary:Alain de Botton examines the origins of status anxiety--the universal anxiety about what others think of us--and reveals ingenious ways in which people have been able to overcome their worries in...
Genre: Philosophy, Psychology, Self-help publications -
Author: Shel, MikeSummary:
No one enters the doom-haunted Barrowlands without royal sanction. But Hesk Atterley has. Accompanied by seedy companions and a hunger for riches, what he finds may change his life forever... if...
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Author: Trollope, AnthonySummary:Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.
Genre: Classic fiction -
Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile....
Genre: Science fiction, Epic fiction -
Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who...
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Author: Ragsdale, LindaSummary:
This beautiful tale follows a raindrop's journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond. It explains how Earth has depended on the same water...
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Author: Rice, AnneSummary:
40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave...
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Author: Rice, AnneSummary:
Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice's enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock...