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The Battle for Christmas - Stephen Nissenbaum
Amazon.com ReviewThis scholarly analysis of our modern celebration of Christmas pulls together a thoroughly convincing case for the widely accepted notion that it is a 19th-century... -
The Arctic Event - James Cobb; Robert Ludlum
SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-ce... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poet - Tony Barnstone; Ping Chou
Product DescriptionUnmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry_ _spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred po... -
Sweet Poison - David Roberts
It is August 1935 and the Duke of Mersham is hosting one of his influential parties, bringing together public figures interested in improving Anglo-German relations. One of his gue... -
Super - Jim Lehrer
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In the tradition of Murder on the Orient Express, Jim Lehrer brings together a cast of characters as fascinating as the historic train that will carry them from C... -
Sunset Park - Paul Auster
SUMMARY: Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysteriou... -
Strega - Andrew H. Vachss
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath ... -
Stolen Heat - Elisabeth Naughton
SUMMARY: His passionate relationship with Egyptologist Katherine Meyer destroyed by his lies, antiquities dealer Peter Kauffman reencounters Kat six years later when they are force... -
Shogun_ A Novel of Japan - James Clavell
SUMMARY: A bold English adventuer. An invincible Japanese warlord. A beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love. All brought together in a mighty saga of a tim... -
Shadow - Karin Alvtegen
Review'Karin Alvtegen in brilliant shape ... I read without stopping and with mounting excitement to see how Karin Alvtegen will tie it all together in the end. As the pro she is, ...