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The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
"Volume Two of the Border Trilogy" '"The Crossing," together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses," towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused w... -
Seven Sisters - Earlene Fowler
From Publishers WeeklyConflicting family loyalties and the burdens of the past lie at the heart of the engrossing seventh novel from four-time Agatha Award nominee Fowler to featur... -
Settling Accounts_ Drive to the - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyIn Turtledove's engrossing second book in the alternate history master's Settling Accounts trilogy (after 2004's Return Engagement), Confederate forces, in a.... -
Relentless Forward Progress_ A - Bryon Powell; Eric Grossman
Although Dean Karnazes' "Ultramarathon Man" and Neal Jamison's "Running Through the Wall" provide runners with engrossing narrative accounts of the experience of running beyond 26.... -
Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
The stunning conclusion to the smash "New York Times" bestselling series the Wicked YearsHailed as "bewitching," "remarkable," "extraordinary," "engrossing," "amazing," and "delici... -
Nightingale's lament - Simon R. Green
FromJohn Taylor has just solved the mystery of two friends' deaths when he is called to another case. Charles Chabron wants Taylor to contact his daughter, Rossignol (French for ni... -
Mayflower_ A Story of Courage, - Nathaniel Philbrick
From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, a... -
Love and Louis XIV_ The Women i - Antonia Fraser
From Publishers WeeklyProlific royal biographer Fraser (_Marie Antoinette_) has assiduously researched her measured yet engrossing study, shedding welcome light on the galaxy of in... -
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool H - Stephanie Barron
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the pic... -
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.On a backward world with six moons, an alert...