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Secrets of the Cat_ Its Lore, L - Barbara Holland
Review“An absolutely wonderful and sometimes hilarious and always soulful book.” (Mademoiselle ) “Smart, bright, well-written....A book about cats as good as this one is rare.” (Sm... -
SSN - Tom Clancy; Martin Greenberg
SUMMARY:Updated with new material on Seawolf and Virginia "Takes readers deeper than they ve ever gone inside a nuclear submarine." (Kirkus Reviews) A rare glimpse inside a ... -
Raise the Titanic! - Clive Cussler
SUMMARY: The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twiste... -
Proust's Overcoat - Lorenza Foschini; Eric Karpeles
Review“I read it in two sittings and just loved it.” (André Aciman, author of EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS ) “A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection, that is heartbreaking... -
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscriptthrough centuries of exile and warIn 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert,... -
Paris Noir - Aurelien Masson
From Publishers WeeklyRarely has the City of Light seemed grittier than in this hard-boiled short story anthology, part of Akashic's noir series that began in 2004 with Brooklyn No... -
Oracle Bones - Peter Hessler
From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outs... -
Odd Hours - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY:Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in reade... -
Life in a Medieval City - Joseph Gies; Frances Gies
For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and to... -
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them li...