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Samuel Pepys - Claire Tomalin
The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil ... -
Sacred Ground - Alex Archer
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In a land of subzero temperatures and snow-covered vistas, survival is a challenge. But for the Araktak—an isolated and mysterious Inuit people—this harsh tundra ... -
Sacred Clowns - Tony Hillerman
From Publishers WeeklyTelling his story the Navajo way, Hillerman ( Coyote Waits ) fully develops the background of the cases pursued by Navajo Tribal Policemen, Lt. Joe Leaphorn a... -
Round Rock - Michelle Huneven
From BooklistThe small California town of Rito, situated in the San Bernita Valley, is the kind of place that attracts dreamers, like the early settlers who made fortunes as citrus... -
Ring Around the Sky - Allyn Gibson
The Tellarite colony world of Kharzh'ulla is a planet of many wonders, but its greatest feature is the Ring, a massive orbital construction, serviced by a series of "space ... -
Red Tide - G. M. Ford
From Publishers WeeklyFord hits the ground running with his fourth solid Frank Corso novel (_Fury_; Black River; etc.). Someone has sprayed a modified Ebola virus into a ... -
Rebellion - Nora Roberts
SUMMARY: "Scotland, 1745. Against the bloody background of the Battle of Culloden, another war was waged and won--the price was honor, the victory, love." Scottish beauty Serena Ma... -
Reamde - Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, and Cry... -
Raylan - Elmore Leonard
“Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today.”—New York Times Book ReviewWith more than forty novels to his credit and still ... -
Quiver - Holly Luhning
A masterful debut thriller about the original female Dracula and an underground gothic cult reenacting her ritualized killings in present day London In sixtee...