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Mirror Image

From Manhattan society to the trenches of war-ravaged France, Mirror Image moves elegantly and dramatically through a rich and troubled ... More at Audible.com

Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List

During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis.

9 reviews

"Great, though lots of names to remember"
Reviewed by asulca593 on Feb 27, 2006
It took me a good 2-3 months to read this book since I am kept busy a lot. This novel is a wonderful book of courage, defiance . . .

$9 - $16

from 3 stores

Richard Marcinko, Jim Defelice, John Weisman - Rogue Warrior: The Real Team

Reluctantly traveling to Cuba as a favor to the head of the CIA, Marcinko discovers that Fidel Castro is lying on his deathbed and has plotted a ...

5 reviews

"Marcinko hits the mark-center mass."
Reviewed by MIDOG on Apr 5, 2000
Poor Richard Marcinko would never make it in today's military. He comes from the old school where time for sensitivity classes . . .

$8 - $13

from 2 stores

Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a youthful Austrian adventurer, mountaineer, and skier, escaped from a British internment camp in India ...

5 reviews

"Open your mind......"
Reviewed by margyle on Aug 9, 2001
A record of a lost society, friendship and respect that transends the years.

$13 - $15

from 2 stores

Boris Akunin and Andrew Bromfield - The Turkish Gambit: A Novel

Translated from the Russian, this third historical mystery starring diplomat/sleuth Erast Fandorin, is set in 1877, when Czarist Russia and the ...

1 review

"Espionage/war/mystery Novel from the Perspective of a Shallow Young Russian Woman: "The Turkish Gambit""
Reviewed by Stephen_Murray on Jul 10, 2011
Billed as a "mystery novel," Boris Akunin's "Turkish Gambit" is more a damsel-in-distress (and over-her-head) novel, a spy novel, a war novel, though there are murders, too, and romances.

$4 - $24

from 4 stores

Virginia Woolf and Mark Hussey - Orlando: A Biography

Fantasy, love offering, exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining ...

2 reviews

"Orlando"
Reviewed by johngo on Jul 14, 2004
Excellent, fascinating, unique.

$3 - $23

from 3 stores

Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. ...

1 review

"Black Hawk Down is a stunning, harrowing, look at a fateful firefight in 1993 Somalia"
Reviewed by alexdg1 on Nov 9, 2004
Bowden's 1999 book has been embraced by the military and general reading audience as a classic "story of modern war." A must-read for every American.

$6 - $20

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Janet Gleeson - The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story

Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, some of the finest minds in Europe were still pursuing the alchemist's ...

1 review

"WWCW: Last Minute Gifts, Part I: The Arcanum"
Reviewed by mshawpyle on Dec 22, 2000
It's a guy thing. 22 December and you haven't started shopping yet. You like being at Eckerd's at midnight on Christmas . . .

$6 - $16

from 2 stores

Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century, a quirky ...

2 reviews

"Born free, but are everywhere in chains"
Reviewed by jc_hall on Sep 24, 2006
The lives of inhabitants of a small, remote Turkish town are irrevocably changed as the world plunges into WWI and neighbours, friends and lovers are torn apart.

$16 - $21

from 2 stores

Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow: Library Edition

When a $20,000,000 bounty is placed on his head, Scarecrow Schofield begins an international race for survival during which he unravels a vast ...

3 reviews

"This Scarecrow should keep most readers away..."
Reviewed by openroad on Feb 25, 2006
Reilly has finally pushed the limits and found what's beyond the edge... and that is the book Scarecrow. Stay away from this one.

$9 - $20

from 2 stores

Daniel Silva - A Death in Vienna

Filled with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy, this is an uncommonly intelligent thriller by one of our very ...

1 review

"A compelling way to remind us of the story of the Holocaust!"
Reviewed by cpw1952 on Jun 3, 2010
"Lest we forget" arose out of WW I. But it certainly applies here! An astonishing story of the German concentration camps.

$10 - $21

from 2 stores

Philippa Gregory - The Virgin's Lover

A fictional portrait of the dangerous early years of Elizabeth I's reign follows the young queen as she copes with a French invasion of Scotland, ...

3 reviews

"The Virgin's Lover"
Reviewed by kairosdreaming on Oct 9, 2011
Not a very good book from Gregory.

$6 - $20

from 2 stores

Faye Kellerman - Straight Into Darkness

In 1920s Munich, the body of Anna Gross, a young society wife, has been found in the English Gardens, still clothed in finery.

3 reviews

"Straight into Disappointment"
Reviewed by heyfrito500 on Sep 18, 2006
Like reading a story out of a high school creative writing course. Didn't care about the story or the characters. Amateurish is the only way to describe this book.

$8 - $23

from 2 stores

Peter R. Pouncey - Rules for Old Men Waiting: A Novel

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the 20th century and an ever-deepening ...

1 review

"A Scotsman Remembers: Rules for Old Men Waiting"
Reviewed by MiDoyle on Sep 19, 2005
Rules for Old Men Waiting is worth reading as a tale of remembrance without inducing a saccharin overload and as one that sparks with intensity and realism.

$6 - $24

from 2 stores

Jacqueline Winspear - Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

In the third novel of this best-selling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful ...

2 reviews

"Pardonable Lies- Skip This One"
Reviewed by wir55 on May 29, 2009
This third book in the Maisie Dobbs series is not the same quality of the first two. Therefore, I wouldn't recomment it.

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Mirror Image

$27.93

Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List

$9 - $16

Richard Marcinko, Jim Defelice, John Weisman - Rogue Warrior: The Real Team

$8 - $13

Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet

$13 - $15

Boris Akunin and Andrew Bromfield - The Turkish Gambit: A Novel

$4 - $24

Virginia Woolf and Mark Hussey - Orlando: A Biography

$3 - $23

Mark Bowden - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War

$6 - $20

Janet Gleeson - The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story

$6 - $16

Louis de Bernieres - Birds Without Wings

$16 - $21

Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow: Library Edition

$9 - $20

Daniel Silva - A Death in Vienna

$10 - $21

Philippa Gregory - The Virgin's Lover

$6 - $20

Faye Kellerman - Straight Into Darkness

$8 - $23

Peter R. Pouncey - Rules for Old Men Waiting: A Novel

$6 - $24

Jacqueline Winspear - Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

$14 - $20

Pompeii: A Practical and Complete Guide of the Archaeological Zone

$7