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The Secret History of the Mongo - Jack Weatherford
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret Histo... -
The Masque of Africa_ Glimpses - V. S. Naipaul
SUMMARY: Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, t... -
The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde
In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in the magic release form B1-7g. But somewhere, someh... -
The Illustrated Gormenghast Tri - Mervyn Peake
Review"Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experien... -
The Ideal Man - Julie Garwood
New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that's pulse-pounding in every sense of the word. Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residenc... -
The Heavens Are Empty_ Discover - Avrom Bendavid-Val
In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of which are ingrained in p... -
The Ghost Mountain Boys - James E. Campbell
Lying due north of Australia, New Guinea is among the world's largest islands. In 1942, when World War II exploded onto its shores, it was an inhospitable, cursorily mapped, diseas... -
The Arctic Event - James Cobb; Robert Ludlum
SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-ce... -
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
From Publishers WeeklySignatureReviewed by Jennifer GilmoreTom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher he carves out an even larger chunk of his distin... -
Sukkwan Island_ A Novella From - David Vann
SUMMARY:In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering...