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Mirror Mirror - Gregory Maguire
SUMMARY: The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved f... -
Miracle - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyMiraculous? Indeed. Miraculous that Steel ekes 200 pages of book out of 50 pages of recycled plot. Quinn Thompson, a 61-year-old recent widower, has just boug... -
Lady Sings the Blues the 50th A - Billie Holiday; William Dufty;
Product DescriptionWith photosOriginally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s un... -
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... -
Journey - Danielle Steel
Amazon.com ReviewIt's amazing to think that Journey is Danielle Steel's 50th novel. What's even more amazing is the high standard she has maintained throughout all her books: when.... -
James Beard's New Fish Cookery - James Beard
Product DescriptionA healthful, dramatically simplified book on cooking techniques for preparinglow cholesterol, low calorie seafood, with over 500 recipes. -
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
In the late 1940s and early 1950s Isaac Asimov found a home on the pages of the science-fiction magazines Astounding and Super-Science Stories. World War II had just ended an... -
Hot Time in the Old Town - Edward Kohn
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presi... -
Hetty_ The Genius and Madness o - Charles Slack
From BooklistHetty Green (1835-1916) was the only woman to make her mark in the financial markets during the Guilded Age of the late 1800s. She parlayed an inheritance of $500,000 ... -
Guild Wars_ Ghosts of Ascalon - Matt Forbeck;Jeff Grubb
SUMMARY: 250 years ago, Ascalon burned . . . Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invad...