Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| GILLIAN GILL (© 1990) | AGATHA CHRISTIE: The Woman and Her Mysteries -
For 50 years, Agatha Christie ruled the roost in British mysteries. Her books have been translated into every major language, and her two most favorite creations, Detective Poirot and Miss Marple, independently solved dozens of murders since Poirot first appeared in 1920.
Unlike today's more promotional authors, Christie was very private. Thus this book's gift is to take us behind the scenes. We get to know Christie's intimate world. We share her hopes and fears over a long life, and emerge with a better understanding of what made her so remarkable.
"Agatha Christie did more than just write detective fiction. She was a novelist, and that is what will keep her books alive."
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(7T, 10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| MARTIN GILBERT (© 1991) | CHURCHILL: A LIFE (PART 1) -
From his childhood, Churchill enjoyed uncommon vitality. Sometimes it even got in his way. But as he matured, he harnessed it to his service. Combined with a profound understanding of men, political acumen both realistic and visionary, and interests that were far-ranging and multi-faceted, it made him the most important man of his time, probably of his century. | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| MARTIN GILBERT (© 1991) | CHURCHILL: A LIFE (PART 2) -
Martin Gilbert brilliantly marries Churchill's public life to his private one. To read this book is to be swept up in the great deeds and dark moments of one of history's most tumultous eras.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| MARTIN GILBERT (© 1991) | CHURCHILL: A LIFE (PART 3) -
"The best one-volume life of Churchill to be found. Full of new insights and information, particularly about his family and friends. Beautifully written, beautifully read."
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(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| BASIL H LIDDELL HART | T.E. LAWRENCE IN ARABIA AND AFTER -
Lawrence of Arabia is not a man so much as a myth, and one's expectation is that on examination the man will be smaller than his story. Liddell Hart proves the Opposite.
Lawrence built his legend by leading the Arabs against their Turkish overlords. His exploits, highly irregular and individualistic, had a romantic aura that captured the public imagination.
"This excellent biography, superbly written and full of action and acventure, proves Lawrence was an authentic hero. The story is also a first rate history, not only of WW I, but of the political consequences that are still festering..." | Y
(12T,18H) | $40 | No | T |
| WALTER ISAACSON (© 1992) | KISSINGER: A BIOGRAPHY (PART 1) -
The first full biography of Henry Kissinger explores the relationship between his complex personality and the foreign policy he pursued. It draws on extensive interviews with Kissinger, as well as 150 other sources, including Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In additon, it makes use of many of Kissinger's private papers. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| WALTER ISAACSON (© 1992) | KISSINGER: A BIOGRAPHY (PART 2) -
An intimate narrative, filled with surprising revelations, that takes this century's most colorful statesman from his childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi Germany, through his tortured relationship with Richard Nixon, to his twilight years as a globe-trotting business consultant. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| ALAN SCHOM (© 1997) | NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (PART 1) -
Alan Schom's ambitious, compulsively readable, and authoritative one-volume life of Napoleon includes all facets of Napoleon's incredible career, from his childhood in Corsica to his death in exile on the island of St. Helena. It follows his many military campaigns and describes the great battles he won and lost, from northern Italy to Egypt, Spain, Prussia, Austria, Poland, and Russia, to his final defeat at Waterloo. It illuminates his extensive political and structural reorganization of the French government; explores his relationships with his wives - the legendary Josephine and her replacement, Marie-Louise - and some of his mistresses; and chronicles his feuds with his tempestuous family and both loyal and mutinous officials. Key aides, ministers, generals, and naval commanders - from Talleyrand and Police Minister Fouch to Marshals Ney, Davout, and Lannes, Admiral Villeneuve, and many more - are fully portrayed and given their due as are Napoleon's many opponents and enemies.
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| ALAN SCHOM (© 1997) | NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (PART 2) -
Alan Schom has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; a Ph.D. from Durham University, England and has lectured on French history at Oxford University.
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| LAVYRLE SPENCER | HOME SONG -
Are there sins of the heart beyond forgiving? The answer is revealed in this powerful novel of a family whose future is imperiled by the past. When a new student transfers to principal Tom Gardner's school, Tom instantly recognizes that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand years before. Raised by an adoring and fiercely ndependent mother who never revealed the name of his biological father, Kent Arens is a fine young man ... but his very presence represents something deeper ... and darker ... to the members of Tom Garnder's family. This book is about the true meaning of unconditional love, and strikes a universal chord in all of us. | Y
(9T,12H) | $16 | No | T |
| HENRI TROYET (© 1977) | CATHERINE THE GREAT (PART 1) -
She was born Sophie Augusta Fredericka on April 21, 1729, to obscure German nobility. She became Catherine II of Russia -- Catherine the Great.
At 14, a bride in an arranged marriage, she was introduced to a court generally considered to be the most licentious in the world. But the court looked tame next to her husband and in-laws!
She triumphed to become the most powerful woman in the world. But she was also the loneliest, in spite of her legions of lovers, one of whom was Potemkin. Catherine had it in her power to make him a prince, and believed that together they could make Russia great again.
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| HENRI TROYET (© 1977) | CATHERINE THE GREAT (PART 2) -
"The story of Russia's passionate empress...brilliantly captures one of the most colorful figures of all times!" (Doubleday Book Club News) | Y
(8T,12H) | $28 | No | T |
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