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The Lair of Bones - David Farland
SUMMARY: Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. They have been written by the likes of Stephen R. Donaldson, R... -
The Lady in the Tower_ The Fall - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines.... -
The Fortune of War - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: "A marvellously full-flavoured, engrossing book, which towers over its current rivals in the genre like a three-decker over a ship's longboat."'Times Literary Sup... -
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
SUMMARY:Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part... -
The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
"Volume Two of the Border Trilogy" '"The Crossing," together with its predecessor "All the Pretty Horses," towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused w... -
Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
SUMMARY: Ted Chiang's first published story, ""Tower of Babylon,"" won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula A... -
Sophie's World_ A Novel About t - Jostein Gaarder
Amazon.com ReviewWanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has ... -
Sons of the Oak - David Farland
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Certain works of fantasy are immediately recognizable as monuments, towering above the rest of the category. Authors of those works, such as Stephen R. Donaldson,... -
Servant of a Dark God - John Brown
SUMMARY: The launch of a towering new fantasy series introduces an elaborate new world, a strange and dark system of magic, and a cast of compelling characters and monsters. Young ... -
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You_ - Marcus Chown
SUMMARY:The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einsteins general theory of relativity. But, almost a century after their advent, most people ...