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Wheelworld - Harry Harrison
Published in 1981 by Granada, this 188 page paperback is the second volume in Harry Harrison's 'To The Stars' triology. Storyline:An unforgiving planet where the sun is about to ri... -
Waterloo - Andrew Roberts
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Wa... -
The Watery Part of the World - Michael Parker
From Publishers WeeklyParker's affecting fifth novel mines two historical anecdotes from 1813 and 1970 to draw parallel narratives around island dwellers off the North Carolina coa... -
The Ten Commandments for Busine - Don Keough
From Publishers WeeklyA former president of the Coca-Cola Company, Keough has assembled an enviable Rolodex in his 81 years, and his book counts Bill Gates, Jack Welch and Warren B... -
The Marquise of O and Other Sto - Heinrich von Kleist
Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from... -
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-s... -
The Far Side of the World - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever ... -
The Eden Hunter_ A Novel - Skip Horack
From Publishers WeeklyLouisiana-born Horack's novel (after The Southern Cross collection) offers a stylish, fast-paced, historical narrative based on an 1816 slave insurrection. Sp... -
The Complete Poems - John Keats
Keats�s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his poli... -
The Authentic Life of Billy the - Pat F. Garrett; Fredrick Nolan
More than twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western outlaw are still popular. And they all go back to one source: The Auth...