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After the prophet_ the epic sto - Lesley Hazleton
SUMMARY: Narrative history at its most compelling, "After the Prophet" relates the dramatic tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between Shia and Sunni Islam. Even as M... -
African Laughter - Doris May Lessing
'African Laughter' is a portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old South... -
Across the Sea of Suns - Gregory Benford
Messages from a far distant sun are received on Earth, causing chaos, as they are in English! A ship is sent twelve years to find the answers and find a secret so deadly it threate... -
A tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
SUMMARY:A novel about a young girl, her family and friends, and their life in the slum section of Brooklyn in the early years of the twentieth century. -
A World Without Ice - H. N. Pollack
SUMMARY: A co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize offers a clear-eyed explanation of the planet's imperiled ice. Much has been written about global warming, but the crucial relati... -
A War Like No Other - Victor Hanson
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the... -
A morbid taste for bones - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet.... -
A Singular Hostage - Thalassa Ali
From Publishers WeeklyWhat's a Victorian girl to do? Twenty years old, not quite beautiful, more interested in military history than in conventional female doings, Mariana Givens s... -
A River Runs Through It and Oth - Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition -
A Place Called Freedom - Ken Follett
SUMMARY:A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM begins in the infernal coal mines of the Jamisson family, in the Scottish highlands, where twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh spends most of his w...