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Pearl Harbor Christmas_ A World - Stanley Weintraub
Review''A vivid 11-day account of a World War II holiday . . . A master chronicler, Weintraub's moody, intensively researched play- by-play narrative traces the final days of 1941.... -
Passage - Connie Willis
Amazon.com ReviewMost of us would rather not spend a lot of time contemplating death, but the characters in Connie Willis's novel Passage make a living at it. Joanna Lander is a m.... -
Paris After the Liberation_ 194 - Antony Beevor; Artemis Cooper
Post liberation Paris – an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feveris... -
Parallel Stories - Peter Nadas; Imre Goldstein
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A once-in-a-generation literary event: the monumental masterwork being hailed as a “twenty-first-century War and Peace” (Magyar Nemzet)In 198... -
Paradox - Alex Archer
Archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly accepts an assignment on behalf of a covert arm of the U.S. Government. She is to lead an expedition to the top of Mount Ararat to find the tr... -
Panic in Philly - Don Pendleton
Special Operator! Thats the word that goes out from the Philadelphia mob. The Philly underground is in danger of coming apart at the seams, rocked from within by a succession of po... -
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
A novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through th... -
Overhaul - Steven Rattner
The first real look inside Team Obama—due just before the 2010 elections—mixes political warfare and big business shakeups in equal proportions, and comes from a uniquely informed ... -
Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote; John Berendt
Review"Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation."–NORMAN MAILER Product DescriptionPublished when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, ... -
Osprey Island - Thisbe Nissen
SUMMARY: As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's L...