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Operation Mincemeat_ How a Dead - Ben Macintyre
SUMMARY: Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking, spellbinding” (New York Times), “wildly improbable but entirely true” (Entertainment Weekly), and, quite simply, “t... -
Onward - Howard Schultz; Joanne Lesley G
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: Onward is not a puff piece. In just under 400 brisk pages, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz details the m... -
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - Jasper Fforde
From Publishers WeeklyWith the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Depart... -
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die - Gail Bowen
From BooklistIn One Fine Day You’re Gonna Die, radio personality Charlie D. hosts a “Day of the Dead” show with a thanatologist, whose ex-lover calls in with terrifying news that p... -
On the Yankee Station_ Stories - William Boyd
Review"A skilled narrator with great powers of witty invention.... William Boyd has established himself as an accomplished and adventurous writer."?_The New York Times Book Review_... -
Object lessons - Anna Quindlen
SUMMARY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [... -
O' Artful Death - Sarah Stewart Taylor
Review "Taylor does a lovely job of setting an atmospheric scene and luring us inside." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "A strikingly atmospheric debut. The w... -
Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci; Irma Anne Ri
SUMMARY: Most of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually prod... -
Not a Good Day to Die_ The Unto - Sean Naylor
From Bookmarks MagazineReviewers lauded Naylor’s "meticulously reported" account (Oregonian). It includes in-person observations during the operation (Naylor was imbedded with the.... -
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
SUMMARY: If you are either learning Italian, or learning English as a second language (ESL) as a Italian speaker, this book is for you. There are many editions of Northanger Abbey....