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The Great Sea_ A Human History - David Abulafia
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In this expansive yet detailed historical gem, David Abulafia covers the full course of human history o... -
The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis
Amazon.com ReviewThe Great Divorce is C.S. Lewis's Divine Comedy: the narrator bears strong resemblance to Lewis (by way of Dante); his Virgil is the fantasy writer Georg... -
The Good Rain_ Across Time & Te - Timothy Egan
Amazon.com ReviewEgan succeeds in capturing the richness and beauty of the Pacific Northwest (and it's possibly imminent destruction) with rich description, appropriately chosen an... -
The Golden Mean - Annabel Lyon
Amazon.com ReviewThe Golden Mean portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his ... -
The Godfather - Mario Puzo; Peter Bart; Robert
Amazon.com ReviewThe story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather th... -
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Amazon.com ReviewIn a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver ... -
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
Amazon.com ReviewIn conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unc... -
The General's Daughter - Nelson DeMille
Amazon.com ReviewLong before the John Travolta film of The General's Daughter (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille's seventh mystery was the breakout hit of h.... -
The Four Loves - C. S. Lewis
Amazon.com ReviewThe Four Loves summarizes four kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Masterful without being magisterial, this book's... -
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman; Marvano
Amazon.com ReviewIn the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book went on to wi...