Here is the bizarre history of the Ottoman Empire as led by its extravagant and corrupt sultans--four hundred years of tyrants who made Turkey a great empire, then allowed her to decline into...
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Author: Barber, NoelSummary:Genre: History and geography
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Author: Scott, WalterSummary:
Upon returning from the Crusades, where he served with King Richard I, Wilfred of Ivanhoe is met with his father's disapproval, having fallen in love with Rowena, his father's ward. When...
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Author: Jerome, Jerome K.Summary:
After his final trip up the river, Jerome sat down to write a serious book about the Thames, but in the process, his humor took over and gave birth to this masterpiece of unquenchable comedy.
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Author: Woodham Smith, CecilSummary:
Tells the story of the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.
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Author: Cantor, Norman F.Summary:
This revised edition of Cantor's breakthrough history of the Middle Ages incorporates new research and a sharper focus on social history, Jewish history, and women's roles in society.
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Author: Wodehouse, P. G.Summary:
These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess;...
Genre: Humorous fiction, Short stories -
Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.Summary:
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY"--TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world...
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
In between running her vampire nightclub and hunting down the perfect pair of shoes, Betsy learns her long-lost half sister Laura is actually the spawn of Satan. Complicating matters, prophesy...
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
Like any bride-to-be (alive or not), Queen Betsy is just a bit flustered by all the wedding preparations she's juggling. In addition to the requisite friends and family, her burgeoning houseguest...
Genre: Paranormal fiction, Romance fiction -
Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
A very modern vampire, Betsy Taylor is facing some formidible challenges. She is getting ready to negotiate her way through a highly political meeting with powerful European vampires. She just...
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
Christmas is approaching, and since the holidays are a time for friends and family, Betsy takes stock of her situation. Her half-sister is the devil's daughter. She has an evil stepmother. A...
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
Betsy must return the body of her werewolf friend Antonia to her own kind in Cape Cod. And who knows how the wolves will greet her. Then there's her half-sister--the devil's own daughter--who is...
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is newly married and living in the suburbs. Already busy dealing with a pesky ghost, Betsy must rise to the occasion when a pack of formerly feral vamps comes calling....
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Author: Davidson, MaryJaniceSummary:
Betsy needs a job and amazingly lands the perfect one--selling designer shoes at Macy's. But the other vamps, including sexy Sinclair, don't want their queen selling shoes. And the vampire hunters...
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Author: Murphy, JimSummary:
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-...
Genre: Juvenile nonfiction