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A History of the World in 6 Gla - Tom Standage
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Standage starts with a bold hypothesis—that each epoch, from the Stone Age to the present, has had its signature beverage—and takes readers on... -
A False Mirror - Charles Todd
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. The complex, evocative ninth installment in Todd's series set in post-WWI England (after 2006's Long Shadow) showcases the pseudonym... -
A Chosen Few - Mark Kurlansky
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIRFifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passo... -
A Cavern of Black Ice - J. V. Jones
SUMMARY: A Cavern of Black Ice opens J.V. Jones's Sword of Shadows trilogy. (Her first novel was The Baker's Boy.) The story is set in a land divided among small warring clans of h... -
77 Shadow Street - Dean Koontz
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception,... -
3001_ The Final Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
SUMMARY: One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drif...