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Settling Accounts _ Return Enga - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyIn this well-thought-out alternate history, the first in a new trilogy, Turtledove (_American Empire_) combines elements of the Civil War and WWII with distur... -
Running Dry - Jonathan Waterman
From BooklistStarred Review Waterman, whose earlier books illuminate the Arctic, strikes an impressive balance between the personal and the political in chronicling his journey do.... -
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of S... -
Return to Kaldak - Jeffrey Lord
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t... -
Ransom - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyA reformed drug dealer, a desperate widow, a bigtime crook and a compassionate cop are the players in this perfunctory kidnapping yarn set in San Francisco. P... -
Push Comes to Shove - Oasis
From Publishers WeeklyOasis (Duplicity) delivers a cookie-cutter urban drama that, while long on crime, violence, betrayals, and melodrama, is unfortunately short on coherence and ... -
Pump Six and Other Stories - Paolo Bacigalupi
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The eleven stories in Pump Six chart the evolution of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominated "Yellow Card Man" and the Sturgeon Award-winning story... -
Practical Jean - Trevor Cole
Jean wouldn't be able stand it if something unfortunate were to befall her friends—that's why decides to kill them herself, before anything else can harm them. Bad Marie meets Arse... -
Player piano - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machine... -
Pirates of Gohar - Jeffrey Lord
The Richard Blade novels were a series of adventures featuring the titular character (MI6A's special agent Richard Blade), who was teleported into a random alternate dimension at t...