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The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza - Lawrence Block
From Library Journal In this classic Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery, long out of print, sneaky thief Bernie turns up a 1913 V-nickel that gets his Spinoza-reading fence, Abel, murdered.... -
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote - Lawrence Block
From Publishers Weekly Those who long for another new exploit of the immortal Bernie Rhodenbarr, Greenwich Village bookseller by profession and burglar by avocation, should be warn... -
The Broken Teaglass - Emily Arsenault
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The dusty files of a venerable dictionary publisher . . . a hidden cache of coded clues . . . a story written by a phantom author . . . an unsolved murder in a gr... -
The Bro Code - Barney Stinson
Everyone's life is governed by an internal code of conduct. Some call it morality. Others call it religion. But Bros in the know call this holy grail the Bro Code. Historically ... -
The Botticelli Secret - Marina Fiorato
SUMMARY: A young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli in a rip-roaring novel that blend... -
The Book_ On the Taboo Against - Alan Watts
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest... -
The Black Nile - Dan Morrison
SUMMARY: A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison... -
The Battle for Christmas - Stephen Nissenbaum
Amazon.com ReviewThis scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century... -
The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky
Amazon.com ReviewThe buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbao aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ("A Basque or Navarrese would do in a Frenc.... -
The Babylonian Codex - C.S. Graham
Product DescriptionAn ancient Biblical prophecy . . . The convening of the richest and most powerful men on earth . . . The sudden, mysterious death of the vice president ...