Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| PETER ACKROYD | DICKENS (part 1) -
Peter Ackroyd is a master biographer, proven again with this definitive life of Charles Dickens. Ackroyd creates Dickens as the consummate artist and entertainer, a man whose public persona gave little hint of the darkness of his private life. | Y
(13T,19.5H) | $44 | No | T |
| PETER ACKROYD | DICKENS (part 2) -
Based upon an extensive examination of original sources, DICKENS combines the real man with the spirit of his time. Indeed, Dickens' work came to stand for the dark background against which Victorian culture shone so brightly. Thus this book is as much a study of the period as it is of this extraordinary man. | Y
(13T,19.5) | $44 | No | T |
| PETER ACKROYD | DICKENS (part 3) -
"Sets the seal on Dickens' acknowledged supremacy in the English novel. It supersedes all other Dickens' biographies." --Anthony Burgess
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| STEPHEN E. AMBROSE | EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY PRESIDENT-ELECT 1890-1952 -
Dwight Eisenhower was not exactly born into poverty, but the family's circumstances were at least austere. He was one of seven children; his father, a railway worker. But the family was strong and unified, the youngsters energetic and ambitious.
Ike made it to West Point, where he excelled in sports. He was a natural leader. But it was at Leavenworth years later, as a student at the war college, that his intellectual talent showed itself. He graduated first in his class.
The author draws in a wealth of previously unpublished information to give us this beautiful portrait. As a result Eisenhower emerges as complex, one who as the author states, ". . .was a good and great man."
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(15T,17.5H) | $50 | No | T |
| STEPHEN E. AMBROSE | EISENHOWER: THE PRESIDENT (part 1) -
In his second installment of the life of Eisenhower, Ambrose paints a man, both decent and complex, whose presidency is increasingly regarded as one of this century's most successful.
Wide-ranging and inclusive, the book covers Eisenhower's rejection of advice to use nuclear weapons, his thinking on defense policy and the Cold War, his actions on civil rights and his views on Communism. We also see Eisenhower in action with Nixon, Truman, Churchill, Khrushchev, de Gaulle and other world leaders.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| STEPHEN E. AMBROSE | EISENHOWER: THE PRESIDENT (part 2) -
EISENHOWER: SOLDIER, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, PRESIDENT-ELECT 1890-1952 is the first volume of a two-part biography. | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| LAURENCE BERGREEN | CAPONE: THE MAN AND THE ERA (part 1) -
He loved center stage, loved the limelight, loved to thumb his nose at authority (who does not?). It was this mix that made Al Capone a gangster-hero to a whole generation of Americans.
Laurence Bergreen, the author, presents Capone with all his warts, but shows us another side as well. In Bergreen's capable hands, "Scarface" emerges in all of his human complexity.
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(11T,16.5H) | $36 | No | T |
| LAURENCE BERGREEN | CAPONE: THE MAN AND THE ERA (part 2) -
"Not only the biography of a man, but also the history of an era's excesses." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board) | Y
(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
| ELIZABETH LOWELL | PEARL COVE -
It is desperation that inspires young widow Hannah McGarry to call Archer Donovan. She saw the man only twice in the past ten years, and he struck her as a cold, ruthless piece of work. But as a silent partner in Pearl Cove, her late husband's pearl farm business, Donovan might be willing to help her...if the price is right.
At twenty-nine, Hannah has been freed to live her life again. Now she faces the mystery of her late husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy...and the disappearance of the Black Trinity, a necklace containing a three million dollar fortune in black pearls that was to be her financial security.
Archer Donovan would rather forget he'd ever heard of Pearl Cove. It links him to memories of living life on the dark side, the old lure, the heart-pumping, soul-numbing certainty that there was no law, no justice, no mercy; just hunters and the hunted. That life taught him to trust no one but family. But when Hannah McGarry calls in an old debt and offers a million dollars, Archer is plunged back into the hell he vowed never to revisit; into a deadly game of money, power, cutthroat competition, and treachery in pursuit of a stolen fortune.
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(7T,11H) | $20 | No | T |
| DAVID OSBORN | MURDER ON THE CHESAPEAKE -
A young student's death (she is found hanged in the chapel campanile) shatters the peaceful world of an exclusive girls' prep school. Was it suicide or murder? The police ask alumna Margaret Barlow, 50ish adventure-loving photojournalist, with an insider's knowledge of the school, to help their investigation.
Barlow finds the campus seething. Silly pranks turn cruel. Accidents look planned...then another victim turns up in an elevator shaft. Will Barlow be next?
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(6T,6H) | $20 | No | T |
| DAVID OSBORN | MURDER IN THE NAPA VALLEY -
A photojournalism assignment becomes a lesson in survival when Margaret Barlow visits L'Abbeye Ste. Denise, a 200-year-old Napa Valley winery.
Sabotage has the winery at the brink of foreclosure and Margaret quickly finds herself in the middle of a family feud. When an owner is shredded in the stemmer-crusher it's clear more than a saboteur is at work. A lethal game of family greed and murder is underway.
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(5T,5H) | $20 | No | T |
| DAVID OSBORN | MURDER ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD -
Margaret Barlow is an attractive, outgoing widow who regards middle age with indifference and everything else with passionate curiosity. She is a fiercely loyal friend, a fiendishly clever adversary and -- when circumstances offer -- a daring detective.
Margaret has come to Martha's Vineyard for a quiet vacation with her grandchildren. But it's not to be. A Boston socialite makes a posthumous appearance, face up in a neighbor's pond. Obviously, it's no accident. Who did it? And why? Then there's another murder and Margaret finds herself a prime suspect.
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(7T,7H) | $20 | No | T |
| WILLIAM STYRON | SOPHIE'S CHOICE (part 1) -
Choice: Stingo, our young Southern narrator. Manuscript reader for a major publisher...or...a genuine novelist soaking up the experiences that one day will re-emerge as stories of great power and precision.
Choice: Nathan Landau. A charming sophisticate possessed of great intelligence...or...a classic schizophrenic, a manic depressive with a consuming distrust of his lover's fidelity.
Choice: Sophie Zawistowska, the Polish Catholic immigrant, forever stamped with her decision in a Nazi Concentration Camp.
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(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| WILLIAM STYRON | SOPHIE'S CHOICE (part 2) -
Having already chosen between her homeland and freedom, she must ultimately choose between life alone and death in the arms of her lover.
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(10T,15H) | $36 | No | T |
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