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Ada, Or, Ardor, a Family Chroni - Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love st... -
A Writer at War_ Vasily Grossma - Vasily Grossman; Antony Beevor;
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before ... -
A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nichols
From Publishers WeeklyIn the psychedelic summer of 1968, as Apollo 8 soared toward the moon and the Democratic Convention crashed in Chicago, nine men tried finally to accomplish t... -
A Russian Journal - John Steinbeck; Susan Shillingl
From Library JournalAfter the Iron Curtain was established following World War II, Steinbeck, along with photographer Bob Capa, ventured into the Soviet Union on behalf of the New ... -
A Place of My Own_ The Architec - Michael Pollan
SUMMARY: "A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shap... -
A Duty to the Dead - Charles Todd
SUMMARY: The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War, helping to deal with the many ... -
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
SUMMARY:Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walte... -
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking; Grover Gardner
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. Th... -
2010_ Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two is a best-selling science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, which was published in January 1982. It is the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey and was nominated for ... -
14 - J. T. Ellison
Product DescriptionTen victims, each with pale skin and long dark hair. All have been slashed across the throat, the same red lipstick smeared across their lips.In the mid-1980s th...