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While the Light Lasts - Agatha Christie
These five early stories, unpublished since their first magazine appearances in the '20s and '30s, were finally unearthed 21 years after Agatha Christie's death. Smartly jacketed i... -
Where Good Ideas Come From_ The - Steven Johnson
From Publishers WeeklyJohnson--writer, Web guru, and bestselling author of Everything Bad Is Good for You--delivers a sweeping look at innovation spanning nearly the whole of human... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde... -
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
Amazon.com Review"What is it about we Australians, eh?" demands a schoolteacher near the end of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. "Do we not have a Jefferson? A Disrae.... -
Tinker - Wen Spencer
From Publishers WeeklyWit and intelligence inform this off-beat, tongue-in-cheek fantasy from Spencer (Alien Taste, etc.), set in near-future Pittsburgh-or rather, the part of Pitt... -
The moon is down - John Steinbeck
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publish... -
The log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The White War_ Life and Death o - Mark Thompson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste... -
The Unsung Hero - Suzanne Brockmann
SUMMARY: After a near-fatal head injury, navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for... -
The Troubled Man_ A Kurt Wallan - Henning Mankell
SUMMARY: Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval o...