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Small World - David MacK
In Small World, the crew of the USS da Vinci is sent to come to the aid of Araneus, a Koas whose ship is destroyed as he attempts to bring a piece of very precious cargo to Fede... -
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... -
Polar Shift - Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos
SUMMARY: When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a ... -
Operation Family Secrets - Frank C. Craighead Jr; Keith Zi
Operation Family Secrets is the chilling true story of how the son of the most violent mobster in Chicago made the unprecedented decision to work with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney... -
Once on a Moonless Night - Dai Sijie
SUMMARY: A precious scroll inscribed with a lost Buddhist sutra-once owned by Pu Yi, the last emperor of China-is illicitly sold to an eccentric French linguist, Paul drs"Ampere, w... -
Machine Man - Max Barry
Review"Wickedly entertaining, a brilliant book: caustically funny, and-by its closing chapter-surprisingly moving." --Scott Smith, author of The Ruins "Using precision... -
Lost City - Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The key to eternal life has been found beneath two thousand feet of icy water in an area known as the "Lost City." To a family of ruthless French arms dealers the... -
Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son R... -
Into the Silence - Sarah Pinborough
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The body in the church hall is very definitely dead. It has been sliced open with surgical precision, its organs exposed, and its vocal cords are gone. It is as i... -
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
SUMMARY:In a sprawling, wild, super-hyped magnum opus, David Foster Wallace fulfills the promise of his precocious novel The Broom of the System. Equal parts philosophi...