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The Battle for Christmas - Stephen Nissenbaum
Amazon.com ReviewThis scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century... -
The Art of the Deal - Glenn Greenberg
SUMMARY:STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The U.S.S. da Vinci is sent to Vemlar to aid in the construction of a new research-and-development facility, run by an interstellar busi... -
The AI War - Stephen Ames Berry
SUMMARY: The dreaded AI's have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet. But war weary humanity refuses to accept the threat as real. C... -
Star - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyThough Steel's ( Zoya ) novels showcase glamorous settings and turbulent romances, she writes convincingly about universal human emotions. Her latest book beg... -
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman
SUMMARY: Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man ... -
Small World - David MacK
In Small World, the crew of the USS da Vinci is sent to come to the aid of Araneus, a Koas whose ship is destroyed as he attempts to bring a piece of very precious cargo to Fede... -
Shogun_ A Novel of Japan - James Clavell
SUMMARY: A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a tim... -
Scenes from Provincial Life - J.M. Coetzee
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unc... -
Pentecost Alley - Anne Perry
From Publishers WeeklyThe 16th Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mystery demonstrates Perry's trademark skill for enhancing well-designed mystery plots with convincing historical settings ... -
Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci; Irma Anne Ri
SUMMARY: Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually prod...