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The log from the Sea of Cortez - John Steinbeck; Edward Flanders
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, h... -
The great American steamboat ra - Benton Rain Patterson
SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book t... -
The food of a younger land_ a p - Mark Kurlansky
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the *New York Times*-bestselling author of *Cod* and *Salt*.** Award-winning *New York ... -
The drawing of the three - Stephen King
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Man in Black is dead, and Roland is about to be hurled into 20th-century America, occupying the mind of a man running cocai... -
The charm school - Nelson DeMille
From Publishers WeeklyThis highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted b... -
The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in ... -
The Women - T. Coraghessan Boyle
From "America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" (Newsweek), a novel of Frank Lloyd Wright and the women in his life. Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harve... -
The Woman Warrior_ Memoirs of a - Maxine Hong Kingston
Amazon.com ReviewThe Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (... -
The Wine-Dark Sea - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. The strang... -
The Whole Story of Half a Girl - Veera Hiranandani
After her father loses his job, Sonia Nadhamuni, half Indian and half Jewish American, finds herself yanked out of private school and thrown into the unfamiliar world of public edu...