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Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
SUMMARY: In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power. England in th... -
Why Evolution Is True - Jerry A. Coyne
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact** In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design,"... -
West of Here - Jonathan Evison
Amazon.com ReviewWest of Here, at the Elwha River dam, where over a hundred years since settlers of the fictional town of Port Bonita tamed the river, their descendants gather in .... -
To a Mountain in Tibet - Colin Thubron
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. œThe mountain path is the road of the dead, writes Thubron (Shadow of the Silk Road) in this engrossing and affecting travel memoir that tran... -
The black echo - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyConnelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. ... -
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
SUMMARY: One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive wo... -
The Last Testament - Sam Bourne
SUMMARY: April 2003: As his nation descends into chaos, an Iraqi boy loots an ancient clay tablet from a long-forgotten vault in the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities--unaware that his... -
The Last Manchu - Henry Pu Yi
In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young em... -
The Ascendant Stars - Michael Cobley
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Tempted - Pamela Britton
SUMMARY: Alexander Drumming, the Marquis of Warrick, is no saint. Descended from a long line of rakes, he has vowed to stop dallying with the fairer sex. But now he needs a woman-a...