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The Machinery of Light - David J. Williams
From Publishers WeeklyThe 22nd century's WWIII crashes to an unexpected end in this slam-bang conclusion to Williams's Autumn Rain trilogy (after 2008's The Mirrored Heavens and 2.... -
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced ... -
The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down... -
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Amazon.com ReviewIf you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl u... -
The Irresistible Henry House - Lisa Grunwald
SUMMARY: It is the middle of the twentieth century, and in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. ... -
The Heavens Are Empty_ Discover - Avrom Bendavid-Val
In the 19th century, nearly five million Jews lived in the Pale of Settlement. Most lived in shtetls—Jewish communities connected to larger towns—images of which are ingrained in p... -
The Harvest Gypsies_ On the Roa - John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenb
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm worke... -
The Great War_ American Front - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewHarry Turtledove's second multivolume saga of 20th-century "alternative history," __, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and ... -
The Great Game_ On Secret Servi - Peter Hopkirk
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those eng... -
The Forgotten Legion - Ben Kane
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., *The Forgotten Legion* is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of ...