When Jennings' new diary is made public, the thought of his most private thoughts being made public spur him to invent a secret language. Will anyone be able to decode it? And how does Jennings...
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Author: Buckeridge, AnthonySummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Porter, RoySummary:In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work...
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Author: Broers, MichaelSummary:All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence...
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Author: Turner, SteveSummary:Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music -
Author: Stewart, IanSummary:Life is full of uncertainty, scientific advances indicate that the universe might be fundamentally inexact, and humans are terrible at guessing. When asked to predict the outcome of a chance event...
Genre: Math and science -
Author: Weeks, BrentSummary:The White King springs his great trap, and the Chromeria itself is threatened by treason and siege. Kip Guile and his companions will scramble to return for one impossible final stand. In the...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Weeks, BrentSummary:
Stripped of all power and imprisoned, former emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen, and only he can save it....
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Weeks, BrentSummary:
Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought...
Genre: Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Weeks, BrentSummary:
As the old gods awaken, the Chromeria is in a race to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe, Gavin Guile. But Gavin's enslaved on a galley, and when he finally...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Herbert, FrankSummary:
Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming...
Genre: Science fiction, Epic fiction -
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.
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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...
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Author: Nesser, HåkanSummary:
When an ex-convict and then a wealthy real-estate tycoon fall victim to a violent attack by a possible ax murderer, Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is called in to assist with the local investigation...