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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... -
Church Folk - Michele Andrea Bowen
Theophilus Henry Simmons is young, single, sexy, and just about the finest black man any wishful mother and daughter have ever seen in Charleston, Mississippi. He's also a pastor. ... -
Castle to Castle (French Litera - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
From Library JournalPublished in English seven years after his death (LJ 11/15/68), this is considered one of Celine's darkest novels. It is also autobiographical. Like the author,... -
Boswell_ A Modern Comedy - Stanley Elkin
Elkin's striking debut: The story of one man's comic attempts at immortality James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses frien... -
Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby is the youngest of all the famous characters in Mrs. Cleary's wonderful Henry Huggins stories. She is also far and away the most deadly. Readers of the earlier books ... -
At the Center of the Storm_ My - George Tenet; Bill Harlow
From Publishers WeeklyFormer CIA director Tenet leaves the main vocal duties for this audio in the capable hands of Conger (who also recently narrated The Reagan Diaries). Ye... -
An Autobiography - M. K. Gandhi; Mahadev Desai
In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that "my life from this point o... -
1635_ Cannon Law - Eric Flint; Andrew Dennis
From Publishers WeeklyFlint and Dennis's solid follow-up to 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004), also set in Renaissance Italy, offers a deliciously Machiavellian plot. The temporally....