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Congo - Michael Crichton
SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a mat... -
Common Sense, the Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
SUMMARY: Thomas Paine's book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and pass... -
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
Enormously popular and widely read pamphlet, first published in January of 1776, clearly and persuasively argues for American separation from Great Britain and paves the way for th... -
Cities of the Plain - Cormac Mccarthy
In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. The... -
Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
SUMMARY: A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gun... -
Calamity Jayne - Kathleen Bacus
SUMMARY: A finalist in the American Title Contest sponsored by Dorchester and "Romantic Times." When Jayne Turner mistakenly drives away from a parking lot in the wrong car, findin... -
Cadillac Desert_ The American W - Marc Reisner
Amazon.com ReviewThe definitive history of water resources in the American West, and a very illuminating lesson in the political economy of limited resources anywhere. Highly recom... -
Bold Spirit - Linda Hunt
"Desperate. Determined. Unwaveringly confident. In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby dares to cross 3500 miles of the American continent to win a $10,000 wager. On foot... -
Bloodlands - Timothy Snyder
Americans call the Second World War The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them duri... -
Black Wind - Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Clive Cussler's dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Clive the Mighty!" hailed Kirkus Reviews about Cussler's last Dirk Pitt(r) novel, *Trojan Odyssey*. "Hurrican...