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Shakespeare - Peter Ackroyd
From Publishers Weekly[Signature]_Reviewed by Ron Rosenbaum_At their best, Shakespearean biographers are like great jazz musicians, able to take a few notes of an old standard and ... -
San Francisco Noir - Peter Maravelis
From Publishers WeeklyA roster of Bay Area authors lends solid street cred to 15 original stories, but few deliver on the elusive noir premise of this new series. Following the suc... -
Ringworld's Children - Larry Niven
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Welcome to a world like no other. The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant s... -
Magic on the Storm - Devon Monk
SUMMARY: Allison Beckstrom is committed to her work tracing illegal spells. Now, there's an apocalyptic storm bearing down on Portland, and when it hits, all the magic in the area ... -
Lost City - Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the "Lost City." To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the... -
Kolyma Tales - Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov
Product DescriptionIt is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seve... -
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... -
Free Fire - C. J. Box
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. When four environmental activists employed by Yellowstone Park are murdered in an isolated area, the Wyoming governor sends outspoken Joe Pic.... -
Empire of Light - Gary Gibson
SUMMARY: The nova war has begun to spread as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity and forcing the Shoal into a ... -
Doctor Who_ The Tomb of Valdema - Simon Messingham
SUMMARY:Millenia ago, the Vanir ripped a hole in reality and created a gateway to the Higher Dimensions. This resulted in the warping of vast areas of space, and anyone who ...