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John Barry_ An American Hero in - Tim McGrath
From Publishers WeeklyThis book establishes McGrath, an executive who has written for Naval History magazine, as an accomplished naval historian. Combining sophisticated use of so.... -
John Adams - David McCullough
SUMMARY: In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest ... -
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer - Jonathan L. Howard
Amazon.com ReviewBook DescriptionIn this uproarious and clever debut, it’s time to give the Devil his due. Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious... -
Johannes Brahms - Jan Swafford
An illuminating new biography of one of the most beloved of all composers, published on the hundredth anniversary of his death, brilliantly written by a finalist for the 1996 Natio... -
Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and - Ian Morgan Cron
"When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother's desk-me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat-I was overwhelmed by ... -
Jane and the man of the cloth - Stephanie Barron
EDITORIAL REVIEW: After her brilliant detective debut in *Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor*, there can be no doubt that Jane Austen would have made aremarkable sleuth... -
Island Madness - Tim Binding
SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning ... -
Is God a Mathematician_ - Mario Livio
Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why ... -
Into the Wildewood - Gillian Summers
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Don't miss the first book in the Faire Folk Trilogy, The Tree Shepherd's Daughter: "One of those remarkable tales in which the reader becomes completely immersed ... -
Interesting Times_ A Twentieth- - Eric J. Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm is considered by many to be our greatest living historian. Robert Heilbroner, writing about Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes 1914-1991 said, "I know of no other account...