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House of Illusions - Pauline Gedge
From Kirkus ReviewsAncient history comes alive and stays that way as Thu, the Egyptian peasant in Lady of the Reeds (1995) who became a pharaoh's concubine and was then banished, n... -
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... -
Homeward Bound - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyAlternate-history maestro Turtledove's conclusion to his Worldwar and Colonization sagas, about how lizard-like aliens known as the Race invaded Earth during ... -
Holy Bible (NIV) - Anonymous
The Bible is the bestselling book in history, and the New International Version (NIV) Bible is the bestselling version year after year.This bestselling modern English Bible has sol... -
Hitler's War - Harry Turtledove
SUMMARY: A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war at any cost, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part... -
History of the Decline and Fall - Edward Gibbon
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, all six volumes, with active table of contents, improved 2/1/2011 -
History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russsell
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, i... -
Hiding Man_ A Biography of Dona - Tracy Daugherty
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This sprawling first biography of the writer Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) complements an exemplary account of the man and his milieu with a hi... -
Heidegger's Glasses_ A Novel - Thaisa Frank
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In her debut novel, Frank (A Brief History of Camouflage) presents a slightly fantastic tale of WWII, concerning an underground German bunker ... -
Harold - Ian W. Walker
King Harold Godwineson (c.1022-66) is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been ...