Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous...
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Author: Jacobson, John J.Summary:
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Author: Frankl, Viktor E.Summary:
Viktor Frankl offers a more straightforward alternative to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis: one's problems may be rooted in a failure to find a meaning in life beyond one's interior world. The...
Genre: Psychology -
Author: Kinsella, W. P.Summary:
More than just another baseball story, this soul-stirring novel on which the movie Field of Dreams is based is about love and the power of dreams to make people come alive.
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Author: L'Amour, LouisSummary:
Tom Kedrick was hired to clear a sizable strip of land of certain "vagrants and outlaws." But what he found were hard-working ranchers and farmers determined to resist any efforts to...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Miles has put his clone, Mark, in charge of a mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole. But the mission goes awry, and Miles' rescue attempt goes even more wrong...
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Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when...
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Author: Swann, S. AndrewSummary:
When young Uldolf discovers an injured and frightened young woman in the woods, he brings her to live with his adoptive family. But Lilly is not quite human, and the danger is greater than they...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Paranormal fiction -
Author: Lightman, Alan P.Summary:
A fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity...
Genre: Biographical fiction -
Author: Allen, Frederick LewisSummary:
Jazz, flappers, flasks, rumble-seats, Rudolph Valentino, and Lucky Lindy-these were the catchwords of the Roaring Twenties. But so were the KKK, women's suffrage, Freud, and Black Tuesday....
Genre: History and geography -
Author: Szwed, John F.Summary:
John Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the...
Genre: Music -
Author: Heinlein, Robert A.Summary:
As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Cordelia Vorkosigan stands ready to spin her life in a new direction, and Oliver Jole finds himself caught up in her web of plans. Wills and expectations collide in this sparkling science fiction...
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Author: Wilson, Edward O.Summary:
In this memoir, Edward O. Wilson describes for the first time both his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the science he has helped to define.
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Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Bujold debuts her beloved Vorkosigan saga with this tale about the future parents of Miles Vorkosigan. Caught on separate sides of a controversial war, a Betan captain and a Barrayaran leader defy...
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Author: Bujold, Lois McMasterSummary:
Cordelia Naismith has deserted her own home planet to marry the leader of the enemy Barrayarans, Aral Vorkosigan. Together, they struggle to establish stability on a planet threatened by civil war...
Genre: Science fiction