Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| BILL BRYSON | A WALK IN THE WOODS - Returning to United States after 20 years in England, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his mother country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. Known affectionately as the AT, it offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes. But for Bryson it also offered an opportunity for humor and irony as he learned the trail's hard lessons about self-reliance. He persuaded his friend Stephen Katz to join him, and through weeks and months on the trail these two pioneers get in touch with a lot more than just life on the trail.
A hilarious description of a latter-day would-be pioneer's attempted hike over the awe-inspiring Appalachian Trail, the last great American wilderness - spoiled only by the sometimes sneering opinions of the author. | Y
(7T,10.5H) | $24 | No | T |
| DICK FRANCIS (© 1967) | BLOOD SPORT -
When English agent Gene Hawkins told his boss he'd forego his vacation to search for millionaire Dave Teller's prized missing stallion, he didn't know his retainer would include the attention of his boss's beautiful teenage daughter-or Teller's seldom sober wife. He also didn't know that a trail from London to New York to Las Vegas to California would lead eventually to murder.
The incomparable Dick Francis is known worldwide for his brilliant, bestselling mystery thrillers. That reputation wasn't built overnight but rather as slowly and certainly as a super suspense novel. His tales of high-stakes treachery on the colorful racing scene not only provide a keystone in his development as a master writer, they also demonstrate why he is often described as one of the greatest living suspense writers.
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1995) | COME TO GRIEF -
Dick Francis brings back Sid Halley, champion jockey-turned-PI of his earlier novels Whip Hand and Odds Against, in this troubling story. Ellis Quint has everything he could want: fame, youth, money, good looks, and talent. What Sid has to figure out is why his friend Ellis also has a streak of sadism that leads him to cut off horses' hooves in the dead of night. Sid's search for the truth leads him into the lowest depths of human nature.
Winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery novel. | Y
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1993) | DECIDER -
Lee Moris used to believe there's no such thing as free choice. But that was before the architect, engineer and builder got involved in a war over control of the Strtton Park racecourse, which faces ruin at the hands of the combative clan that owns it. With multimillions on the line and the now-violent infighting edging closer, Morris wrestles with the most critical decision of his life. One path leads to safety; the other to disaster, even death. Which is which? And does he really have a choice? | Y
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1992) | DRIVING FORCE -
Freddie Croft, a young ex-jockey, owns a profitable fleet of horse vans. A man with few illusions about racing's dark side, Freddie is a stickler for security.
So imagine his anger when a driver not only breaks the rules (never pick up a hitchhiker), but the hitchhiker dies in the van!
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1969) | ENQUIRY -
Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield have been barred from racing-a devastating event for them both. The charge at the secret enquiry? Throwing a race for personal profit. It is a vicious frame-up and, worse, they have nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still Hughes refuses to take the phony verdict lying down-even though his personal enquiry might have him lying down permanently...
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1976) | IN THE FRAME -
Charles Todd is an English artist who is well known and respected for his renderings of sleek and athletic horses. What he now faces at his cousin Donald's house is also art-the art of a perfectly brutal murderer.
Donald's home has been burglarized and his wife, Regina, is lying on her back dead, her face the color of cream. Donald is shattered, shocked, and a prime suspect. And todd suddenly finds himself involved in a dangerous man-hunt as he searches, against all odds, for an elusive killer and some murderous answers.
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| DICK FRANCIS (© 1978) | TRIAL RUN -
The last place Randall Drew wants to go is Moscow -- even as a favor to the Royal Family. But the Prince's brother-in-law has his heart set on riding in the Olympics, even if it kills him. And if he does make the team, someone will.
Leaving behind his horses, his girlfriend, his comforts, Randall sets off. In Moscow he finds sabotage and murder. He hasn't a clue that worse is ahead.
"Spellbinding...marvelous...devastating...a winner for certain!" (Publishers Weekly)
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| PAUL FUSSELL | CLASS -
With iconoclastic wit Paul Fussell zeroes in on the sacred American myth of social equality in this superbly-researched, exquisitely-observed guide to the signs, symbols and customs of the American class system. Funny, scholarly, and deeply ironic by turns, Class is always outrageously on target as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own.
Without a convenient system of inherited titles, ranks and honors, anxiety over Knowing Where You Stand has led to a plethora of national idiocies, including British street names in Houston and an alligator on every sock. Paul Fussell tells us what these things say about us as well as describing the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody-even thee and me in between. No group, no pretense, aspiration or foolish assumption escapes Fussell's sometimes acid, sometimes affectionate dissection as he reveals the rules of the game for everything from the location of the driveway to the position of the television set. Class is guaranteed to infuriate and amuse, whether your class is so high it's out of sight or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift.
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| BANESH HOFFMANN | ALBERT EINSTEIN CREATOR and REBEL -
This remarkable study is the model of what the biography of a scientist should be. Its author, a noted scientist himself, collaborated with and was a friend of Albert Einstein.
On these pages we come to know Albert Einstein, the "backward" child, the academic outcast, the reluctant world celebrity, the exile, the pacifist, the philosopher, the humanitarian, the tragically saddened "father" of the atomic bomb and, above all, the unceasing searcher after scientific truth. At the same time, we are given a superb and essential introduction to the creative process and the concepts that shattered an age-old view of the universe and ushered in a revolution whose reverberations continue to touch us all. | Y
(6T,9H) | $20 | No | T |
| JOHANNA LINDSEY | HEART OF A WARRIOR
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They say men are from Mars and women are from Venus, but according to perennial New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, men, especially huge hunks like Dalden Ly-San-Ter, are from the planet Sha-Ka'an, and women, especially strong-minded, statuesque beauties like carpenter Brittany Callaghan, are from right here on Earth! Lindsey's latest offering is out of this world--literally. Brittany meets the first man she's ever had to look up to when she sees Dalden at a political rally... like she could avoid noticing a 7-foot tall Hercules clad in form-fitting leather pants. When he disappears without a trace, Brittany is unaccountably put out. But when Dalden just as mysteriously reappears in her apartment the next day, her already piqued interest--and libido--goes into overdrive. Brittany thinks Dalden is just visiting from another country, never guessing that his home is actually in a whole different solar system. Dalden is hunting an unscrupulous enemy who has stolen a shipment of mind-altering weapons, a situation with potentially cataclysmic results. But the virginal Brittany is a distraction Dalden didn't count on. Add a smart-mouthed computer, the burgeoning passion between the oh-so-different protagonists, and Heart of a Warrior offers a wild romp that only Lindsey could write. Fasten your seat belts and relish the ride! --Alison Trinkle
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| JEFFREY MEYERS | SCOTT FITZGERALD -
Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. This book is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life and to illuminate the recurrent patterns that reveal his inner self. Jeffrey Meyers emphasizes Fitzgerald's alcoholism, Zelda's illnesses and her doctors, Fitzgerald's love affairs both before and after her breakdown, and his wide-ranging friendships, from the polo star Tommy Hitchcock to the Hollywood executive Irving Thalberg. His writer friends included Ring Larder, John Dos Passos, James Joyce, Edith Wharton, and Dorothy Parker. Exercising fine critical balance, Myers details Fitzgerald's weaknesses but ultimately reveals a man capable of fierce loyalty and great moral courage. | Y
(11T,16.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| ELIZABETH PETERS | THE COPENHAGEN CONNECTION -
Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark-gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli... look for a missing person? The plane ride itself had turned out to be Kismet, introducing Elizabeth to her idol, Nobel Prize-winning historian and famed eccentric Margaret Rosenberg and her long-suffering son Christian. So when Margaret vanishes in Copenhagen, Elizabeth joins the irascible Christian in searching the city from underground crypts to the graves of queens. What they encounter is a baffling ransom demand for a bathrobe, not money. And what they dig up will connect a modern disappearance with an ancient artifact and the oldest of motives for crime.
THE COPENHAGEN CONNECTION is an Elizabeth Peters classic, featuring both her signature blend of ancient history and modern mayhem, red herrings-and the creme de la creme of amateur detectives. | Y
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| ELIZABETH PETERS | THE NIGHT OF FOUR HUNDRED RABBITS -
An unexpected "gift" has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope bearing a newspaper clipping and no return address. There, blurred but unmistakable, is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead -- Carol's father. It is a siren calling her to a world she has never known, to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Now, surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity, a conspiracy she never imagined...and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive.
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| ROBERT V. REMINI | ANDREW JACKSON -
"Professor Remini, already a recognized authority on the Jackson period, has written the best biography of Andrew Jackson available. It summarizes adequately the best of the old scholarship while at the same time branching off to offer significant new interpretations of crucial points."-Library JOURNAL
"In this concise and well-written biography, Robert V. Remini has a more ambitious objective than merely recounting the life of a famous man.... He portrays the President not as a symbol of the age nor a personification of proletarian striving, but as a shrewd and able politician, a pioneer in using the office of the Presidency for both national and narrowly partisan purposes.... His account is persuasive and well documented." -Political SCIENCE QUARTERLY | Y
(5T,7.5H) | $18 | No | T |
| JAMES RESTON, JR. | GALILEO - History
For the last four hundred years, Galileo has fascinated and inspired writers, theologians, playwrights, historians, and scientists. As the founder of modern science and the embodiment of the conflict between science and faith, Galileo remains the most fascinating figure of his age. Here James Reston, Jr., writes a lively, dramatic life of Galileo, one that not only takes us to the heart of this passionate, embattled, prickly, vain, arrogant, and brilliant man, but also paints a vivid picture of Renaissance Italy, of its unparalleled cultural richness and political and religious intrigues. At the center of the story, of course, is Galileo's discovery of the telescope, which revolutionized astronomy but put Galileo into conflict with the Catholic church until 1633, when the Inquisition denounced him, banishing him for the last nine years of his life. | Y
(9T,13.5H) | $28 | No | T |
| WILLIAM L. SHIRER | GANDHI -
The problem with saints is, they are not interesting. Albert Einstein's quotation about Gandhi ("Generations to come...will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.") is overdone.
Thus William L. Shirer's contribution is a welcome breath of fresh air. He paints a man who is not only a saintly apostle on non-violence, but a shrewd politician, an impious wit, a revolutionary whose zeal was balanced by charity.
Shirer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, became a personal friend of Mahatma Gandhi when he covered the independence movement in India for the Chicago Tribune. His book shed light on a man who not only influenced history, but pointed the way for Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
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| TOM WOLFE (© 1987) | THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (part 1) -
Sherman McCoy is on the way to having it made. A red-hot young investment banker with a 14-room apartment in Manhattan, he splits in panic from a freak accident in the Bronx. But circumstances conspire against him, not to mention police, press, politicians and prosecutors.
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| TOM WOLFE (© 1987) | THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (part 2) -
"Wolfe's New York City is a city boiling with racial and ethnic hostilities, also burning with an itch to get it NOW. His gallery ranges from Wall Street, where people in their thirties feel like small fry if they're not yet making a million per, to the real streets, where the aim is lower but the itch just as virulent."
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