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From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Folsom's improbable sequel to his equally improbable The Machiavelli Covenant (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who's trying to...
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An epic romance that stretches across whole lives, and even beyond death, Salman Rushdie's most accessible novel and his boldest imaginative act is also a vivid account of the inti...
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From Publishers WeeklyThe historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American...
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