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This Hallowed Ground - Bruce Catton
This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union - from the Northern point of view, but in terms of the men from both sides who lived and d... -
The seeker - Simon Hawke
Trained by the mystical Villichi in the Way of the Druid and the Path of the Preserver, Sorak the elfling sets out to find the mysterious and reclusive wizard known only as the Sag... -
The kill-off - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: Luane Devore is about to be murdered. It's her favorite topic of conversation. Just who will do the murdering is anybody's guess. It could be the young husband she keeps i... -
The dark side of the sun - Terry Pratchett
SUMMARY: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfa... -
The Warrior Elite_ The Forging - Dick Couch
FromThere is a pod of good books on the SEALs, but this one is unique. Couch, a Vietnam-era SEAL and retired naval reserve captain, was given the most complete access possible to t... -
The Vivisector - Patrick White; J. M. Coetzee
Review"One of the great magicians of fiction . . . White's scope is vast and his invention endless."-_The Observer_ (London) Product DescriptionHurtle Duffield, a pai... -
The Unwanted - Brett Battles
SUMMARY: Jonathan Quinn, freelance operative and professional 'cleaner', is on a mission in Ireland - purely as an observer - but things go wrong when a hidden assassin kills four ... -
The Tudor Secret - C. W. Gortner
From Publishers WeeklyIn Gortner's latest riveting historical (after The Last Queen), the influential Dudley family sends orphan servant Brendan Prescott to serve their cruel son, ... -
The Tender Bar_ A Memoir - J. R. Moehringer
Amazon.com Review"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Pr.... -
The Telling - Ursula K. le Guin
The Left Hand of DarknessSutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world-a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporati...