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Young Sherlock Holmes- Death Cl - Andrew Lane
SUMMARY: The year is 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. His life is that of a perfectly ordinary army officer's son: boarding school, good manners, a classical education ' the ... -
Wuthering Heights - Emily Jane Bronte
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her s... -
Woodsburner - John Pipkin
SUMMARY: Set against the backdrop of a devastating forest fire that Henry David Thoreau accidentally set in 1844, John Pipkin's novel brilliantly illuminates the mind of the young ... -
Where Heaven Begins - Bittner
SUMMARY: With rough miners for shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail to search for her brother in Alaska, wild with the 1890s gold rush. When she falls overboard midjourney, ... -
When the Sleeper Wakes - Herbert George Wells
Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, h... -
Wheelworld - Harry Harrison
Published in 1981 by Granada, this 188 page paperback is the second volume in Harry Harrison's 'To The Stars' triology. Storyline:An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to ri... -
Waterloo - Andrew Roberts
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Wa... -
Warlords of Gaikon - Jeffrey Lord
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Richard Blade arrives in the Empire of Gaikon - a feudal society - a land much like Japan ruled by the Tokugawa Shoguns. This is the 18th volume in the Richard Bl... -
Walden and on the Duty of Civil - Henry David Thoreau
SUMMARY: Thoreau, a sturdy individualist and nature lover, lived a spare existence in a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, from 1845 to 1847. "Walde... -
Tipperary_ A Novel - Frank Delaney
From Publishers WeeklySeventy-five years after the death of Charles O'Brien, an Anglo-Irish itinerant healer and occasional journalist born in 1860, his memoir is discovered in a t...