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The Ape Who Guards the Balance - Elizabeth Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have sub... -
The American Plague - Molly Caldwell Crosby
From Publishers WeeklyIn a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled the raging yellow fever epidemic, which finally waned when coole... -
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. Th... -
The Ambassadors - Henry James
Introduction by Colm TóibínOne of the final masterpieces from one of the world's greatest authors, Henry James's The Ambassadors is now available for the first t... -
The Alienist - Caleb Carr
SUMMARY: The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvar... -
The Airplane - Jay Spenser
From Publishers WeeklyThis history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright broth.... -
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, c... -
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular.... -
The Adventures and Memoirs of S - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Ed Glin
From the Inside FlapFrom ?A Scandal in Bohemia,? in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to ?The Five Orange Pips,? in which the mas... -
The Abstinence Teacher - Tom Perrotta
From Publishers WeeklySignatureReviewed by Jennifer GilmoreTom Perrotta knows his suburbia, and in The Abstinence Teacher he carves out an even larger chunk of his distin...