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The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
TIM O'BRIEN received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. His other works include the acclaimed novels The Things They Carried and July, July. In the L... -
The Narrative of Sojourner Trut - Sojourner Truth
SUMMARY: The subject of this biography- SOJOURNER TRUTH- as she now calls herself-but whose name originally was Isabella-was born- as near as she can now calculate between the year... -
The Marquise of O and Other Sto - Heinrich von Kleist
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from... -
The Knight of Maison-Rouge - Alexandre Dumas; Julie Rose
A major new translation of a forgotten classic Paris, 1793, the onset of the Terror. Brave Republican Maurice rescues a mys-terious and beautiful woman from an angry mob and... -
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece... -
The Fort_ A Novel of the Revolu - Bernard Cornwell
SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sa... -
Scarborough Fair - Chris Scott Wilson
When America needed a hero, John Paul Jones stood up. During the War of Independence, at the battle of Flamborough Head in 1779, commanding a converted East Indiaman, he tackled a ... -
Doctor Who_ The Reign of Terror - Ian Marter
SUMMARY:When the TARDIS materialises near Paris in 1794, Dr. Who and his friends become caught up in the deadly turmoil of the French Revolution -
Doctor Who_ Seeing I - Jonathan Blum; Kate Orman
Amazon.com ReviewSeeing I is the second in the BBC range from coauthors Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum. The first 170 or so of the book's 279 pages drag interminably as Sam and... -
Diaries 1969-1979_ The Python Y - Michael Palin
Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years