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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
ReviewPraise for the rise of Theodore Roosevelt ?Magnificent . . . a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character... -
Samuel Pepys - Claire Tomalin
The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil ... -
Perfect Nightmare - John Saul
From Publishers WeeklyA creepy stalker story becomes a shrewd whodunit as Saul's latest tracks a move from tranquil suburbia to the big city. After a job promotion, the Marshall fa... -
Moscow, December 25, 1991_ The - Conor O'Clery
ReviewPublishers Weekly, June 15, 2011“Shrewd political history.... O’Clery presents a colorful human-scale saga, full of pathos and pettiness. (As Gorbache... -
How the Homosexuals Saved Civil - Cathy Crimmins
A shrewd and irreverent cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed all of us... -
Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn
SUMMARY: Lord Shigeru, heir to the Otori clan, faces hostility from the shrewdly ambitious Iida family in the East and base treachery at home from his uncles. His noble education a... -
Hard news - Jeffery Deaver
From Publishers WeeklyRune, the shrewd and spunky heroine of Manhattan Is My Beat , returns with a new job as a camerawoman for a local TV news station, but she still believes in m... -
Deaf Sentence - David Lodge
SUMMARY: The subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodges fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shrewd observations that have made him a much-loved icon...