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Crocodile on the Sandbank - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY:Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's... -
Criers & Kibitzers, Kibitzers & - Stanley Elkin
ReviewVirtually any story in this collection contains more art than 98% of the thousands of novels published in this country in the past five years. Elkin's stories are fully reali... -
Coop_ A Year of Poultry, Pigs, - Michael Perry
Amazon.com ReviewBook DescriptionIn over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A ... -
Contact - Carl Sagan
Amazon.com ReviewIt is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of... -
Confessions - St. Augustine Of Hippo
By his own account, St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D.354-430) lived a life of sin until his conversion to Christianity at the age of 32. Twelve years later he gave a personal account of... -
College - Joshua Piven; David Borgenicht;
The college years are a time of noble pursuit of knowledge, self-betterment—and unending peril! Students are at risk from the moment they receive their acceptance letters. Fortunat... -
Collapse_ How Societies Choose - Jared Diamond
"A magisterial effort packed with insight and written with clarity and enthusiasm. It's also the deal of the year---the equivalent of a year's college course by an engaging, brilli... -
Coincidence - Alan May
SUMMARY:Seventeen-year-old Melissa is having her best year ever.She's traveling the world on the tall ship "Inspiration," and, along with more than thirty other students, ge... -
Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare
SUMMARY: Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still. When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the r... -
Cleopatra_ A Life - Stacy Schiff
SUMMARY:Cleopatras palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped th...