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A Long Way Down (2005)
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last sto...

1491 (2006)
Describes how recent archaeological research has transformed long-held myths about the Americas, rev...

The Secret Speech (2009)
A new thriller set in the turmoil and upheaval of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union follows former sta...

The Whole Truth (2009)
"Dick, I need a war." Nicolas Creel is a man on a mission. He heads up the world's largest defense c...

The Appeal (2008)
The author of such best-selling legal thrillers as A Time to Kill, The Last Juror, and The Brethren ...

The Orphan Master's Son (2012)
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential fa...

Triangle (2003)
Describes the 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Villa...

A Gift of Wings (1989)
"He captures the sheer exhilaration, at moments approaching exaltation, that he experiences up there...

The Shack (2007)
Four years after his daughter is abducted and evidence of her murder is found in an abandoned shack,...

Anathem (2008)
Having lived in a monastery since childhood away from the violent upheavals of the outside world, Ra...

A Crack in the Edge of the World (2005)
An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of...

The Lords of Discipline (1987)
Dramatically interweaves themes of brotherhood and betrayal as senior cadet, Will McLean, courageous...

A Rumor of War (1996)
A personal memoir of the war in Vietnam, in which the author first served as a Marine and which he l...

Other Fish in the Sea (2003)
A series of ten interconnected stories follows the life and loves of Elly Fisher....

Catherine the Great (2011)
Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage...

Summer Reading (2007)
The lives of three very different women--Lissy Snyder, an insecure newlywed and unwilling stepmother...