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Song of Slaves in the Desert - Alan Cheuse
SUMMARY:Based on historically accurate roots, this novel explores one New Yorker's involvement in his family's rice plantation and the wild tensions involved as he tries to ... -
Rivethead - Ben Hamper
From Publishers WeeklyIn a voice often as powerful as the riveting gun he wielded in the 1970s and '80s in a Flint, Mich., General Motors assembly plant, Hamper nails down the excr... -
No Surrender - Jeff Mariotte
When your ship falls under the thrall of the ancient Landru super-computer, or when you discover an alien device planted on your world before li... -
Monster Republic - Ben Horton
SUMMARY: An explosion in a nuclear power plant. Kids patched up with scavenged body parts and bionic implants. A growing army of superhuman soldiers programmed for destruction. "No... -
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
SUMMARY: A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his h... -
Killer Plants of Binaark - Jeffrey Lord
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t... -
Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende
SUMMARY: From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlours of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mula... -
In Defense of Food_ An Eater's - Michael Pollan
SUMMARY: What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Micha... -
Hungry Plants - Mary Batten
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For All the Tea in China_ How E - Sarah Rose
From BooklistStarred Review Through the adventures of Robert Fortune, a nineteenth-century plant hunter, the reader learns a delicious brew of information on the history of tea cu....