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Killing Lincoln - Bill O'Reilly; Martin Dugard
Review"As a history major, I wish my required reading had been as well written as this truly vivid and emotionally engaging account of Lincoln's assassination. And as a former comb... -
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
SUMMARY: The international bestseller, finally in paperback! "Time "magazine's #1 book of the year - 11 weeks and counting on the "New York Times" bestseller list - Shortlisted for... -
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to de... -
Intimate Secrets - B. J. Daniels
SHE HAD THE KIND OF SECRET NO WOMAN COULD KEEP... When Josie O'Malley found herself pregnant, she knew her father would surely mete out the Texas law of the West -- and shoot the n... -
Interesting Times_ A Twentieth- - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account... -
India_ A Wounded Civilization - V. S. Naipaul
A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age. In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical accou... -
In Rough Country_ Essays and Re - Joyce Carol Oates
SUMMARY: This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is... -
In Other Worlds - Margaret Eleanor Atwood
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This re... -
Imagined London - Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen first visited London from a chair in her suburban Philadelphia home--in one of her beloved childhood mystery novels. She has been back to London countless times since... -
If I Die in a Combat Zone - Tim O'Brien
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to...