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The Motive - John T. Lescroart
With their park view and old-fashioned detail, the Victorian houses on San Francisco's Steiner Street were highly valuable. But with their wooden construction, they were also highl... -
The Luminist - David Rocklin
IN COLONIAL INDIA, at a time of growing friction between the ruling British and the restless Indian populace, a Victorian woman and her young Tamil Indian servant defy convention, ... -
The Last Time I Saw Paris - Lynn Sheene
From Publishers WeeklyA farm girl turned Manhattan socialite lands in Paris just ahead of the Wehrmacht in Sheene's perfunctory debut. When Claire Harris's rich husband finds out s... -
The Last Camel Died at Noon - Elizabeth Peters
From Publishers WeeklyIf Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventur... -
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Pengu - H. G. Wells
Amazon.com ReviewA shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never w... -
The Iron Thorn - Caitlin Kittredge
FromSteampunk fans will delight in this first title in the sure-to-be-popular Iron Codex series, featuring an alternate, Victorian-flavored America tightly controlled by Proctors a... -
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
SUMMARY:The Soviets' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at ... -
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (B& - Victor Hugo; Isabel Roche
Product DescriptionThe Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo, is part of the *Barnes & Noble Classics *series, which offers quality editions a... -
The Helmet of Horror_ The Myth - Victor Pelevin
Victor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who The New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional no... -
The Great Sea_ A Human History - David Abulafia
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, October 2011: In this expansive yet detailed historical gem, David Abulafia covers the full course of human history o...