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The Inferno - Dante Alighieri; John Ciardi
The immortal drama of a journey through Hell.Belonging in the immortal company of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece is a moving human dra... -
The Improbable Adventures of Sh - John Joseph Adams
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes is back!Sherlock Holmes, the world's first--and most famous--consulting detective, came to the world's attention more than 120 years ago through S... -
The House of Wittgenstein_ A Fa - Alexander Waugh
SUMMARY: The modern obsession with celebrity began with the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped... -
The History of History - Ida Hattemer-Higgins
From Publishers WeeklyA promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins's overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September ... -
The Heretic Queen - Michelle Moran
In ancient Egypt, a forgotten princess must overcome her familyGÇÖs past and remake history. The winds of change are blowing through Thebes. A devastating palace fire has killed th... -
The Gun - C. J. Chivers
FromThis superior history of the AK family of assault rifles begins with the invention of the machine gun by Hiram Maxim and traces automatic weapons through WWII. In 1947, Russian... -
The Great War_ Walk in Hell - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewHarry Turtledove marches on through history with The Great War: Walk in Hell. In his alternate timeline, the Confederate States of America won the Civil War, aide.... -
The Great War_ Breakthroughs - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American... -
The Great Derangement - Matt Taibbi
A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE H... -
The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam
From prizewinning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam comes her deeply moving second novel about the rise of Islamic radicalism in Bangladesh, seen through the intimate lens of a fam...