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The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have... -
The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions!** Since *The Book of Three* was first published in 1964, young readers have... -
The Berlin Conspiracy - Tom Gabbay
From Publishers WeeklyWallowing in a post–Bay of Pigs funk, ex-CIA agent Jack Teller is called out of retirement in 1963 and sent to Berlin to meet an East German agent with a mess... -
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvar... -
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular.... -
Summer of Night - Dan Simmons
SUMMARY: In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in t... -
Street gang_ the complete histo - Michael Davis
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The story of one of the most important and beloved shows on television-how it got started, nearly failed, and was saved by Elmo** When the first episode aired o... -
Stiltsville_ A Novel - Susanna Daniel
Amazon.com Review_Stiltsville is a story of a marriage that begins with serendipity--that holiest of relationship grails--one warm summer day in Miami. It's 1969 when girl (Frances... -
Sanctuary - Nora Roberts
From Library JournalThere's no looking back for Roberts, who made the break to hardcover with the best-selling Montana Sky (LJ 2/1/96). Her latest tells of a young woman who finds ... -
River Town_ Two Years on the Ya - Peter Hessler
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Alo...