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Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
From Publishers WeeklyAfter a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the di... -
How to Be an American Housewife - Margaret Dilloway
From Publishers WeeklyIn this enchanting first novel, Dilloway mines her own family's history to produce the story of Japanese war bride Shoko, her American daughter, Sue, and thei... -
How We Believe_ Science and the - Michael Shermer
A new edition covering the latest scientific research on how the brain makes us believers or skepticsRecent polls report that 96 percent of Americans believe in God, and 73 percent... -
Hot Time in the Old Town - Edward Kohn
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presi... -
Hostile Intent - Michael Walsh
EDITORIAL REVIEW: It starts with the most horrific act of terrorism ever committed on American soil. Only one man can stop them. Code named Devlin, he exists only in the blackest s... -
Homer & Langley_ A Novel - E. L. Doctorow
SUMMARY: From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to The Book of Daniel, World's Fair, and The March, the novels of E. L. Doctorow comprise one of the most substantive achievements of moder... -
Harry Truman's Excellent Advent - Matthew Algeo
Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip -
Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. ** When Ki... -
Gig - John Bowe
"Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating."<br>-- <i>USA Today</i><br><br>"The a... -
George F. Kennan_ An American L - John Lewis Gaddis
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled maste...