A large scholarly book of over 650 pages representing the life of one of the most fascinating characters in history. The great Tallyrand was a master of survival, serving the Bourbon kings, then Napoleon, then the kings again then Napoleon again. The man was apparently indispensable to all sides. Read about one of the great unseen hands of history.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Pennsylvania

A biography

Talleyrand

Stephen Coonts

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

True Accounts of the 20th Century's Most Dramatic Air Battles - by the Men Who Fought Them

Presents twenty-six real-life accounts of aerial warfare, including "The Hero's Life" by Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker" and "The Flight of Enola Gay" by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts

War in the Air

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Michael Yon

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The American soldier is why General David Petraeus's brilliant strategy of moving soldiers off isolated bases and out among the Iraqi people worked. Worked to find and kill terrorists, reclaim neighborhoods and help lead Iraq to democracy. Iraqis respect strength. They saw that American soldiers are great-hearted warriors who rejoice in killing Al Qaeda terror gangs that took over whole cities, raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads. But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier rebuilding a clinic, school or neighborhood. They learned from the American soldier that the most dangerous man in the world could be the best man too. - Follow the great Deuce Four battalion that became the center of a warrior cult dreaded by terrorists and revered by Iraqis. - Read about an elite Iraqi SWAT team taking down a terror cell for the murder of four American soldiers and a brave Iraqi guide. - Occupiers, not liberators? Tell that to the wounded Iraqi interpreter, who, convinced he was about to die, begged his U.S. commander to have his heart cut out and buried in America.

Moment of Truth in Iraq

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Aryeh S. Nusbacher

Written with good humored, verve as benefits, a rattling yarn of sex, violence, and terror. Recent scholarship has illuminated one of the most exciting battles of Scottish history, showing it to be a historically significant as it was romantic and bloody. ￼

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Recent scholarship has illuminated one of the most exciting battles of Scottish history, showing it to be as historically significant as it was romantic and bloody. This book carries the reader through the politics and plans of a military campaign of the Middle Ages. Using recent studies on weapons, warfare, and Scottish history, as well as sound archival sources, this book opens the files on a year's preparation for a massive English invasion of Scotland. In addition to the heroic legends, Bannockburn 1314 examines the common soldiers summoned to war and the knights who fought near them.

Bannockburn 1314

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Joseph Delaney

Ideal for the reader who has outgrown Harry Potter! Warning: not to be red after dark ￼

It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke. Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected visitor. Tom doesn't know who the stranger is or what he wants, but the Spook suddenly decides it's time to travel to his winter house, Anglezarke. Tom has heard it will be a bleak, forbidding place, and that menacing creatures are starting to stir somewhere on the moors nearby. Can anything prepare Tom for what he finds there? What if the rumors about the evil beast called the Golgoth are true? And how much danger will Tom be in if the secrets the Spook has been trying to hide from the world are revealed?

The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer (Book 3)

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Margaret Jull Costa

This book is so great. You really have to read it. I’m sorry about the poor condition but you’re getting it for a song.

A novel of suspense, history, chess.

While restoring a fifteenth-century masterpiece, Julia, a young art expert in Madrid, stumbles upon a real-life mystery as she sets out to find the killer responsible for a five-hundred-year-old murder and becomes the target of modern-day intrigue, betrayal, and death. Reprint.

The Flanders Panel

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Richard Wheeler

This classic narrative chronicles of savage five day struggle to rest Mount Sachi from its tenacious Japanese defenders during the 35 day battle for Iwo Jima ￼

First-hand account of the five-day struggle to capture the Mount by forty-six men of 3rd Platoon, 28th Marines and raise the first flag over Iwo Jima.

The Bloody Battle for Suribachi

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Agatha Christie

Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels

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Barbara W. Tuchman

On November 16, 1776, a ship flying the red white and blue striped frag of the continental Congress entered the port of Saint Eustacius in the west Indies. Adhering to custom on entering a foreign port, the ship fired to salute, and the guns of the islands for returned a ritual response. This act of recognition acknowledge that the vessel is flag, represented a legitimate nation. It was the first official salute to United States of America . ￼

A view of the American Revolution

Presents a fresh view of the American Revolution, chronicling key events from 1776 to 1781 and assessing the repercussions for America, England, France, and other nations

The First Salute

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Martin Cruz Smith

Novel by the author of Gorky Park

"Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted...It should find as many friends as did GORKY PARK." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Back from exile, Arkady Reko returns to find that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. Not so his enemies. Hounded by the Russian mafia, chased by ruthless minions of the newly rich and powerful, and tempted by his great love, Arkady can only hope for escape. Fate, however, has other ideas.... A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION

Red Square

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Brian Herbert

Kevin J. Anderson

Herbert Franke

Kevin Anderson

Prequel to the classic award-winning saga ￼

House Atreides

THE EPIC PREQUEL TODUNE "DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDESis a terrific prequel, but it is also a first-rate adventure on its own. Frank Herbert would surely be delighted and proud of this continuation of his vision."—Dean Koontz Frank Herbert'sDunechronicles became an enduring classic and the most popular science fiction series of all time. Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring usDune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous destiny into a saga that expands the tale written by Frank Herbert more than thirty years ago. Complex, brilliant, and prophetic, Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imaginations of millions of readers worldwide—and transformed their perception of what the future could be. By his death in 1986, Frank Herbert had completed six novels in the Dune series. But much of his vision—vast, sprawling, and multilayered—remained unwritten. Now, working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the first volume in the prequel toDune—where we step onto planet Arrakis...decades beforeDune's hero, Paul Atreides, walks its sands. — Beginning nearly four decades beforeDune,House Atreidesintroduces pivotal characters, alliances, base treacheries, and bright hopes that form the foundation ofDune. On the planet Arrakis, an aging tyrant sits on the Golden Lion Throne and rules all of the known universe, while his son grows dangerously impatient for the crown. A quasi-religious order of black-robed women move their secret breeding program one momentous step closer to creating a god-child they call the Kwisatz Haderach. And a minor family among the nobility, House Atreides, chooses a course of honor that will bring it to destruction at the hands of its mortal enemy, House Harkonnen—or take it to new heights of power. Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created in his classic series, in the time leading up to the momentous events ofDune. As Emperor Elrood's son Shaddam plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves his lush, water-rich planet for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes is dispatched by the Emperor to the desert planet Arrakis, or Dune, to discover the secrets of the addictive spice known as melan≥ and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegades—and shapers of history. Covering the decade when Shaddam wins his throne, the teenager Leo Atreides becomes unexpectedly the rule of House Atreides, and Pardot Kynes uncovers one of the planet Dune's greatest secrets,House Atreidesstands next toDunein its power and scope. While this new novel solves some ofDune's most baffling mysteries, it presents new puzzles springing from the sands where one day Paul Muad'Dib Atreides will walk. But now, in the years before Paul's birth, an unforgettable new epic begins. Fans of theDunechronicles will relish the opportunity to return to the rich and exotic universe created by Frank Herbert, while new readers will be introduced to an incomparable imagination—a future where the fate of the entire cosmos is at stake. The Story BehindDune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert When my father first sat down with me to go over one of my manuscripts, he told me that he couldn't teach me how to write; instead, he would t

Dune

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Mark Helprin

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

An old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality told by one of America's most acclaimed novelists.


A Soldier of the Great War

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George Carlin

The thinking person’s comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all new cutting edge opinion and observational humor in his first best seller, brain droppings. ￼

The veteran comic shares some thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assumptions, and assertions about the follies of modern life

Brain Droppings

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Alexander McCall Smith

Tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Detective, who is drawn to her profession to help people with the problems in their lives. Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gabarone, Botswana, she’s hired to track down a missing husband, uncover, and follow wayward daughter. Not to mention the witch doctors. ￼

First book in the series: charming, honest, hilarious, and life affirming. You love it. First book in the series: charming, honest, hilarious, and life affirming. You love it.

Working in Gaborone, Botswana, Precious Ramotswe investigates several local mysteries, including a search for a missing boy and the case of the clinic doctor with different personalities for different days of the week.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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Four months on the New York Times bestseller list! 
Murder and espionage on a lonely ship far north of the Arctic Circle. 

Author of the guns of Navarone

Bear island

Michael Palmer

A high concept, high octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting edge medicine.

Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were once Naval Academy roommates. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign,Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard announces that his personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared--and he desperately needs Gabe to take the man's place.

Now ensconced in the White House medical office, Gabe comes to a disturbing realization: The President is not fit to run the country. Worse, Gabe uncovers evidence that his friend's illness may not be due to natural causes. Who could have administered such a blow? And why? The President's life is at stake, the safety of the world is in jeopardy, and it's up to Gabe to find the answers while time is running out...

The First Patient

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Raymond E. Feist

Pug, the master magician, sometimes known as Milber, must undertake an awesome and perilous quest to the dawn of time to grapple with an ancient and fear some enemy for the fate of 1000 worlds.

A Darkness at Sethanon

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Greg Iles

In a secret government lab, America’s top scientists work on Trinity – a supercomputer that could surpass the power of the human mind. As the projects ethicist, Dr. Tennant works in a firestorm , limitless science and ruthless ambition.

The next phase of human evolution may not be human at all! The next phase of human evolution may not be human at all!

From acclaimedNew York Timesbestselling author Greg Iles comes a cutting-edge thriller in which the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all....In a secret government lab, America's top scientists work on Trinity -- a supercomputer that could surpass the power of the human mind. As the project's ethicist, Dr. David Tennant works in a firestorm of limitless science and ruthless ambition. After a fellow scientist is murdered, David uncovers who the killer is. Desperate, he turns to Rachel Weiss, the psychiatrist probing the nightmares that have plagued him since joining the project, and both are forced to flee for their lives.Pursued around the globe, David and Rachel piece together the truth behind Project Trinity, and the apocalyptic power it possesses. But Trinity's countdown has already begun, and humanity is now held hostage by a form of life that cannot be destroyed. The only hope for survival lies in the shocking connection that exists between Trinity and David's tortured mind. Mankind's future hangs in the balance -- and the price of failure is extinction.

The Footprints of God

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Byron L. Dorgan

David Hagberg

America is on the brink of crisis!

Former Senator Dorgan and acclaimed novelist Hagberg collaborate on a high-concept thriller about America's dangerous addiction to foreign oil--a dependency that could cripple the nation's economy and ecosystem.

Blowout

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Jack Campbell

The kind of hero Hornblower fans will love! The alliance has been fighting a losing battle against the syndicate world for over century. Now, Captin, John Gray, who returned to fleet after 100 years, suspended animation, must keep the alliance one step ahead of its merciless foes.

Military sci-fi at its best

The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies. But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race.

The Lost Fleet: Courageous

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I. A. N. & CALDWELL

If you loved the DaVinci Code

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in t

The Rule of Four

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Orson Scott Card

The conclusion of the Ender Quartet

The author of Ender's Game presents the conclusion of his popular series, The Ender Quartet, which pits an evolved computer intelligence against the Starways Congress in a fight to save the planet Lusitania. Reprint.

Children of the Mind

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Michael Crichton

Aka “Eaters of the Dead”

"Crichton excells at storytelling." NEWSDAY In A.D. 922 Ibn Fadlan, the representative of the ruler of Bagdad, City of Peace, crosses the Caspian sea and journeys up the valley of the Volga on a mission to the King of Saqaliba. Before he arrives, he meets with Buliwyf, a powerful Viking chieftain who is summoned by his besieged relatives to the North. Buliwyf must return to Scandanavia and save his countrymen and families from the monsters of the mist....

Eaters of the Dead

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Nelson DeMille

NYT bestseller… chilling, compelling, devastating 

#1 New York Times bestselling author, Nelson DeMille, delivers an explosive thriller of international intrigue and high-voltage political tension set in contemporary Russia.On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast and astounding KGB conspiracy that stands poised against the very heartland of America. Arrayed against this renegade power of the Soviet state are three Americans: an Air Force officer, who will fly one last covert mission into the center of a mad experiment; an embassy liaison, who will have her hopes for a saner superpower balance brutally tested; and the chief of the CIA's Moscow station, who will find his intricate dance of destiny and death reaching its devastating conclusion.

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