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Mary Tudor_ Princess, Bastard, - Anna Whitelock
SUMMARY:She was the first woman to inherit the throne of England, a key player in one of Britain’s stormiest eras, and a leader whose unwavering faith and swift retribution ... -
Lords of Finance_ The Bankers W - Liaquat Ahamed
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose pe... -
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY: Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. G... -
In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck; Warren G. Frenc
ReviewJohn Steinbeck knew and understood America and Americans better than any other writer of the twentieth century. (The Dallas Morning News) A man whose work was equal to ... -
How to Bake a Perfect Life - Barbara O'Neal
From Publishers WeeklyThe Rita Award–winning author (as Barbara Samuel) of The Lost Recipe for Happiness returns with the absorbing story of Ramona Gallagher, a 40-year-old woman w... -
How It Ended_ New and Collected - Jay McInerney
SUMMARY: From the writer whose first novel,Bright Lights, Big City, defined a generation, a collection of twenty-six stories, new and old, that trace the arc of his career for near... -
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy. -
Hide and Seek - James Patterson
It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the world's heart. Not only because of the victim,... -
Hero_ The Life and Legend of La - Michael Korda
SUMMARY: Michael Korda's Hero is the story of an epic life on a grand scale, a revealing, in-depth, and gripping biography of the extraordinary, mysterious, and dynamic Englishman ... -
Hermit in Paris_ Autobiographic - Italo Calvino; Martin McLaughli
From Publishers WeeklyThis new volume of autobiographical writings (never before translated into English) by Calvino, whose short stories and novels gave him international acclaim ...