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Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands o... -
In the Shadow of Gotham - Stefanie Pintoff
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Dobson, New York, 1905. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the General Slocum ferry disastera thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard... -
Hearts of Grey - Earl E. Gobel
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 1865. The Civil War between the states is raging on. General Sherman, along with over sixty thousand Union troops, has just forced their way into Colu... -
Halo_ Ghosts of Onyx - Eric S. Nylund
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Continuing the saga of the award-winning Xbox™ game! The Spartan-II program has gone public. Tales of super-soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks hav... -
Great House_ A Novel - Nicole Krauss
Amazon.com ReviewGreat House looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico García Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in .... -
Good Things I Wish You - A. Manette Ansay
SUMMARY: The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a cen... -
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Yiyun Li
BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide.In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Pr... -
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre; Javier Moro
It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious cl... -
Enchanter's End Game - David Eddings
SUMMARY: ''洗Come, Belgarion, Child of Light. I await thee in the City of Night . . .' A confrontation that has been prophesied for thousands of years is racing towards a conclusion... -
Doctor Who_ The Infinity Doctor - Lance Parkin
SUMMARY:Gallifrey. The Doctor's home planet. For twenty, thousand centuries the Gallifreyans have been the most powerful race in the cosmos. They have circumnavigated infini...