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The Golden Acorn - Catherine Cooper
SUMMARY:The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries... -
The Forest - Edward Rutherfurd
Amazon.com ReviewWith such novels as and , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to place, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. The ... -
The Double Agents - W.E.B. Griffin
From Publishers WeeklyActors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin's Men... -
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
Amazon.com ReviewWith its hypnotic, staccato rhythms, and words jostling, bumping, marching forward with edgy intensity (like lemmings heading toward a cliff of their own devising)... -
The Charnel Prince - J. Gregory Keyes
Amazon.com ReviewWith The Charnel Prince, author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has .... -
The Blue Helmet - William Bell
ReviewWinner of the 2007 CLA young adult canadian book awardAn OLA top ten best bet for schools and libraries “William Bell is arguably one of the most wide-... -
The Best Alternate History Stor - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewWhat if? Harry Turtledove, renowned alt-historian and the editor of this anthology, calls that question "those two mournful little words." But little though they .... -
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 ... -
Settling Accounts_ The Grapple - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe compelling third volume (after Drive to the East) in Turtledove's third alternate history of WWII series opens with the Confederacy reeling after the los.... -
Settling Accounts _ Return Enga - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyIn this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (_American Empire_) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with distur...