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Jesse James_ Last Rebel of the - T. J. Stiles
Amazon.com ReviewProbably no American outlaw has attracted more attention--much of it flattering--than Jesse James. This revisionist biography by T.J. Stiles delves into the exciti... -
Jane Bites Back_ A Novel - Michael Thomas Ford; Ellen Weis
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves--but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Up... -
Jane Austen Education, A - William Deresiewicz
An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remark... -
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
From Publishers WeeklyQuinn ( Dreamer ) won the Turner Tomorrow Award's half-million-dollar first prize for this fascinating and odd book--not a novel by any conventional definitio... -
Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands o... -
Is This Bottle Corked__ The Sec - Kathleen Burk; Michael Bywater
Review"As appealing to wine-lovers as it is to the simply curious–and to those who like to start their sentences, ‘Ah yes, but did you know . . . ?’–_Is This Bottle Corked?_ answer... -
Is Journalism Worth Dying For__ - Anna Politkovskaya; Arch Tait
A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murderAnna Politkovskaya won internationa... -
Invitation to a Beheading - Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov;
Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to de... -
Inversions - Iain M. Banks
Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret.On a backward world with six moons, an alert... -
Introduction to objectivist epi - Ayn Rand; Leonard Peikoff; Harr
SUMMARY: Today man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basi...