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What do readers say about Ready Player One?
exciting, geeky romp80s cheesefestreal page turnerbrilliant, yet wordyIt's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia when you can be anything you want to be, ... Read more about Ready Player One
Gunfire wasn’t uncommon in the stacks, but it still shook me up. I knew I probably wouldn’t be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coi...
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What do readers say about Outlander?
easy to readplenty of actionfantastic historical romanceengaging plot lines'Scotland's answer to Game of Thrones' HERALD
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES, as seen on Amazon Prime
What if your future lay in the past?
1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a sec... Read more about Outlander
It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances, at least at first glance. Mrs. Baird’s was like a thousand other Highland bed-and-breakfast establishments in 1945; clean and quiet, with fading flora...
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What do readers say about The Name of the Rose?
a series of murdersan ode to ignorancea murder mysterymonster of a bookAn international sensation and winner of the Premio Strega and the Prix Médicis Etranger awards, this enthralling medieval murder mystery is "a brilliant deconstruction of the traditional crime novel" (Iain Rankin).
The year is 1327. Benedictines in ... Read more about The Name of the Rose
ON AUGUST 16, 1968, I WAS HANDED A BOOK WRITTEN BY A CERTAIN Abbé Vallet, Le Manuscrit de Dom Adson de Melk, traduit en français d’après l’édition de Dom J. Mabillon (Aux Presses de l’Abbaye de la Sou...
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What do readers say about Pandora's Star?
fast-paced and well writtenan intriguing storymodern space operagreat space opera"An imaginative and stunning tale of the perfect future threatened . . . a book of epic proportions not unlike Frank Herbert's Dune or Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy."-SFRevu
The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contai... Read more about Pandora's Star
The star vanished from the centre of the telescope’s image in less time than a single human heartbeat. There was no mistake, Dudley Bose was looking right at it when it happened. He blinked in surpris...
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What do readers say about The Vanishing Half?
a flowing novelsimple yet beautifully sophisticatedimaginative and cleverclever and concise#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST... Read more about The Vanishing Half
The morning one of the lost twins returned to Mallard, Lou LeBon ran to the diner to break the news, and even now, many years later, everyone remembers the shock of sweaty Lou pushing through the glas...
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What do readers say about Little House in the Big Woods?
full of innocencewestward migration and expansionsimple yet beautifulearly pioneer lifeLewis Carroll Shelf Award
ALA Notable Children's Book
Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, ... Read more about Little House in the Big Woods
The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. As far as a man could go to the north in a day, or a week, or a who...
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What do readers say about The Three Musketeers?
entertaining, if meandering plotflawed and curiouslots of actionadventure and romanceOne of the greatest adventures of all time comes to the screen this fall-shot entirely in 3D!... Read more about The Three Musketeers
As perhaps our readers are not familiar with the slang of the Rue de Jerusalem, and as it is fifteen years since we applied this word for the first time to this thing, allow us to explain to them what...
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What do readers say about The Perfect Storm?
a book for allnonfiction, factual accountfishing and sea lifea chilling adventure"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." -Los Angeles Times
It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high-a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteoro... Read more about The Perfect Storm
A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air. Trucks rumble along Rogers Street and men in t-shirts stained with fishblood...
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What do readers say about London?
ap world historygood historical fictiondetailed fiction and factthe most fascinating story"A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking."-The Orlando Sentinel
A master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of ... Read more about London
Four hundred million years ago, when the continents were arranged in a quite different configuration, the island formed part of a small promontory on the north-western edge of a vast, shapeless landma...
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What do readers say about Three Cups of Tea?
unfocused and scattered throughoutcold and impersonalhumanitarian work and educationa tale of philanthropyThe astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban's backyard
Anyone who despairs of the individual's power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mor... Read more about Three Cups of Tea
In Pakistan’s Karakoram, bristling across an area barely one hundred miles wide, more than sixty of the world’s tallest mountains lord their severe alpine beauty over a witnessless high-altitude wilde...
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