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The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of exist... -
Broker, The - John Grisham
SUMMARY: In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent ... -
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb__ - Brian Lamb; C-Span
SUMMARY: In this newly updated book, C-SPAN provides a comprehensive guide to the final resting places of our nation's presidents. As much about the presidents' lives as it is abou... -
Where the River Ends - Charles Martin
From BooklistThere’s sweet and sensitive, then there’s downright saccharine. Martin’s vapid tale of a young husband who will go to the ends of the earth to grant his dying wife her... -
Ulysses S. Grant - Michael Korda
From Publishers WeeklyThis little book will inevitably be compared with Josiah Bunting's similarly short biography of one of the world's greatest military figures. The marriage of ... -
The Way of Shadows - Brent Weeks
EDITORIAL REVIEW: For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. A... -
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduard - Jimmy Breslin
Amazon.com ReviewJimmy Breslin's The Story of Eduardo Gutierrez tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young illegal Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City constructio.... -
The Kingdom - Clive Cussler; Grant Blackwood
Product DescriptionSam and Remi Fargo return for the thrilling third adventure in the acclaimed new series. In Spartan Gold and Lost Empire, Cliv... -
The Harvest Gypsies_ On the Roa - John Steinbeck; Charles Wollenb
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Recently listed in the Top 100 List of the Century's Best American Journalism Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm worke... -
The Fortunate Pilgrim - Mario Puzo
From Library JournalPuzo has called this 1965 pre-Godfather novel his personal favorite of his oeuvre. It recounts the life of Lucia Santa Angeluzzi-Corbo, a Southern Italian immig...