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The Seven Basic Plots - Christopher Booker
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a ... -
The Road - Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandle
Review"Grossman's unsparing, literary account of the horrific ways Nazi Germany implemented its ethnic-cleansing program at Treblinka was one of the first reports of a death camp a... -
The Reluctant Vampire - Lynsay Sands
Product DescriptionHas this immortal finally met her match? Rogue hunter Drina Argenis (from the Spanish side of the Argeneau family) has been many things in her years as an im... -
The Plains of Passage - Jean M. Auel
From Publishers WeeklyThe long-awaited fourth installment of the Earth's Children series is as warm and inviting as its campfire milieu. sure fire bestseller. Auel again describes ... -
The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson
Review"Johnson fearlessly takes readers from . . . a cool innocent-abroad-with-iPod story to supernatural thriller. The tension ramps up exquisitely among cups of tea, library visi... -
The Moon Tunnel - Jim Kelly
SUMMARY: Crawling on elbows and knees, a man slowly inches forward, making his way through a cramped space and suffocating darkness. He doesn’t know that someone is watching, and i... -
The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookb - Kim O'Donnel
Founded by Johns Hopkins University, the Meatless Monday” campaign counts among its fans Michael Pollan, Sheryl Crow, and Paul McCartney. From Baltimore Public Schools to the city... -
The Mage in the Iron Mask - Brian Thomsen
Product DescriptionMulmaster, nicknamed the "City of Danger," is the next stop on Volothamp Geddarm's research trip for his upcoming Guide to the Monsoon, and maybe his final resti... -
The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down... -
The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K. Hamilton
SUMMARY:Animator and vampire hunter Anita Blake is about to discover that some secrets are better left buried-and some people better off dead...