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The Last Hero_ A Life of Henry - Howard Bryant
SUMMARY: In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry Aaron's reputation has only grown in magnitude: he broke existing records (RBIs, total bases, extra-base hits) and set... -
The Lady in the Tower_ The Fall - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines.... -
The Kingdom by the Sea - Paul Theroux
After eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the Briti... -
The Informationist_ A Thriller - Taylor Stevens
SUMMARY:“Stevens’s blazingly brilliant debut introduces a great new action heroine, Vanessa Michael Munroe, who doesn’t have to kick over a hornet’s nest to get attention, t... -
The Histories (B&N) - Herodotus; Donald Lateiner; G.
Product DescriptionThe Histories, by Herodotus, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics *series, which offers quality editions at affordable pri... -
The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This blood-drenched, thought-provoking dissection of a three-day battle is set in the same world as Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy (The Blade... -
The Hero With a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron - Lian Hearn
SUMMARY: The surprise fourth installment, the epic conclusion of Lian Hearn's beloved, bestselling Tales of the Otori. <br/><br/> The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the O... -
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
Amazon.com ReviewIn conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unc... -
The Far Side of the World - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever ...