Legacy of Ashes.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Legacy of Ashes: The
History of the CIA)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The History of the CIA
CIA. The acronym conjures images of poison pens, double agents, and
clandestine battles of wits. But reality, Tim Weiner claims, differs.
Starting with its . . .
Island of the Lost.(history)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
One crew survives, one does not.
On January 3, 1864, a storm hurled the schooner Grafton onto the
rocks of Auckland Island, a remote speck of . . .
FDR.(history)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A contemporary perspective.
In FDR, Jean Edward Smith reminds readers of the 32nd American
president's sweeping social reforms and his extraordinary
leadership in World War II . . .
Fateful Choices.(history)(Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That
Changed The World, 1940-1941)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Ten Decisions That Changed The World, 1940-1941
World War II's early turning points.
During the 19-month period starting in May 1940, leaders of the
Allies and the Axis made . . .
Peeling the Onion.(biography)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A Memoir
Holding back the tears.
Gunter Grass was only 15 when he first attempted to join the German
military. The navy turned him down for submarine duty; soon enough, . . .
The Diana Chronicles.(biography)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Diana, a decade after her death.
From her loveless marriage to Prince Charles to her last fling with
Dodi Fayed, Princess Diana still remains a mythical figure in the . . .
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.(general)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A Year of Food Life
A personal look at the Locavore movement.
The Kingsolver family, with novelist Barbara as matriarch, leaves
its home in Tucson and moves to an ancestral farm in . . .
Land of Lincoln.(general)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Adventures in Abe's America
Desperately seeking Abe.
As a child in Illinois, Andrew Ferguson developed a fixation on all
things Abraham Lincoln, taking great pleasure in visiting . . .
The Sushi Economy.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(The Sushi Economy:
Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy
One fish, two fish ...
Sushi, once an obscure Japanese delicacy, has become the trendiest
food in the modern world. The Sushi . . .
Crashing through.(general NONFICTION)(Crashing Through: A True
Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See)(Book
revi
EXCELLENT
A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
When the gift of sight sometimes isn't.
Despite having been blinded in a chemical explosion at the age of
three, Mike . . .
The Atomic Bazaar.(general)(The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the
Nuclear Poor)(Book review)
The genie is out of the bottle.
EXCELLENT
The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
The end of the Cold War heralded the end of the superpowers'
monopoly on nuclear arms, and recent technological advances . . .
Shadow of the silk road.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book
review)
EXCELLENT
The greatest land route.
Despite its name, the Silk Road--the almost mythical subject of
Colin Thubron's ninth travel book--is not a single road but a vast
network of trade routes . . .
American food writing.(general)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
An Anthology with Classic Recipes
Food for thought.
In American Food Writing, food journalist Molly O'Neill offers
a literary tasting menu, her eclectic palate mingling expected . . .
Soon I Will Be Invincible.(sf)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Heroes and villains.
From the get-go, it's not hard to figure out that Soon I Will
Be Invincible, Austin Grossman's first book, is as much about
having fun as saving the world. This . . .
Bright of the Sky.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Book One of the Entire and the Rose
A sprawling space adventure.
A bizarre industrial accident prompts the directors of the powerful
Minerva Company to seek out former starship . . .
Acacia.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION.)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Book One: The War with the Mein
Elegy for an empire.
After King Leodan Akaran is assassinated and the peaceful realm of
Acacia vanquished by the Mein, a brutal race exiled long ago . . .
Territory.(sf)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The really Wild West.
In the 1880s, some residents of the small mining town of Tombstone,
Arizona, have more than just their guns to rely on. When a stagecoach is
robbed, blame falls . . .
The sons of heaven.(sf)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A Company Novel
The end of Mendoza and The Company.
On July 9, 2355, the Silence will fall--and the cyborgs who travel
back in time amassing human relics for The Company will find . . .
Stalin's ghost.(crime)(Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko
Novel)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
An Arkady Renko Novel
Arkady Renko returns.
In his sixth appearance since 1981's Gorky Park (and after
2005's Wolves Eat Dogs), Moscow detective Arkady Renko still smokes
too much, . . .
New England White.(crime)(New England White: A Novel)(Book
review)
EXCELLENT
A return to Elm Harbor.
On a cold November night, Lemaster Carlyle, recently appointed the
first African American president of Elm Harbor University, and his wife,
Julia, deputy dean . . .
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