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The Last Western - Thomas S. Klise
Written by Thomas S. Klise (1928-1978) and subtitled An Epic Novel Portraying The Terrible Truth About Western Civilization. With its deceptively simple, fast paced story de... -
The Homeplace - Gilbert Morris
SUMMARY: As the year 1928 begins, fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her moth... -
K2_ Life and Death on the World - Ed Viesturs; David Roberts
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the TopAt 2... -
How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Dave Tompkins
The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weaponThe vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from eavesdroppers dur... -
East of the Sun - Julia Gregson
SUMMARY: As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name g... -
Doctor Who_ Marco Polo - John Lucarotti
SUMMARY:Visiting the Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, in 1289, Doctor Who gambles away his space-time ship, the TARDIS, to Kublai Khan -
Doctor Who_ Dark Progeny - Steve Emmerson
SUMMARY:Ceres Alpha is an inhospitable planet being "developed" as a human colony in the year 2847 A.D. Colonists work in vast city machines that churn dead soil and reconst... -
Chump Change - David Eddie
From Publishers WeeklyIt's hard to claim literary burnout after a brief stint as a glorified filing clerk at Newsweek, but the slacker protagonist of Eddie's debut novel, 28-year-o... -
Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash
From the bestselling author ofTulipomaniacomesBatavia's Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival. It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavi... -
Anna Karenina - Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - ...