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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

by Isaac Asimov

11 short stories from the famed sci-fi author

The Crack in the Sky

by Richard A. Lupoff

Across the planet, only a handful of domed cities exist, cities like NorCal where multiple marriages and drug-taking are encouraged. Everyone waits for a technology to save them. IN CASE OF INFERNO ... "Sir, I checked the high-angle video shot again. That fire is just going and going." "Anything else on the condition screen?" "Sir, it says we have to stand by for a complete dome evacuation. How can we do that? That's impossible, it must be some obsolete code. We can't evacuate thirty million people!" The computers had the answer, but the question was: In earth's spoiled atmosphere, could anyone survive outside the dome?

The Crash of '79

by Paul Erdman

The Shah of Iran has grandiose plans, which people unknowingly contribute to the crash of 1979 and the demise of the industrial West.

The Deep

by Peter Benchley

A young couple goes to Bermuda on their honeymoon. They dive on the reefs offshore, looking for the wreck of a sunken ship, but they find much more.

The Glendower Legacy

by Thomas Gifford

A 200-year-old document fell into a young student's hands. It soon cost him his life, inflamed a struggle between the CIA and the KGB, and made 2 people the targets of both sides.

The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton

by Larry Niven

3 novellas from the science fiction writer: Death by Ecstasy, The Defenseless Dead, and Arm.

The Old Time Radio Book

by Ted Sennett

"This book is a collection of articles, quizzes, and photographs which attempts to recapture radio's golden years and provide entertainment for those who lived through them. The articles deal with many of the popular programs and versatile people of old-time radio; the quizzes should challenge even the longest memories, and the photographs- well, there were actual people behind all those voices, and they are seen here doing their jobs and doing them well." Bookshare offers many other books about old-time radio.

The Power of Blackness

by Jack Williamson

Branded a criminal, he sought refuge with a mysterious clan of intergalactic revolutionaries, and found his heritage at last.

The Raj Quartet

by Paul Scott

Scott's epic saga set in the last years of the British Raj in India: The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, and A Division of the Spoils. Historical fiction.

The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917

by Edward Crankshaw

A panoramic, illuminating account of a dynasty in decline, that shows how Russia had within it seeds not only of revolution but of many aspects of modern Russia which we think of as peculiar.

The Whisper of the Axe

by Richard Condon

She was beautiful, brilliant, a dazzling lawyer and a glamorous socialite. She was also the mastermind behind a terrorist plot to annihilate 60 million Americans and destroy the US.

Thirteen Against the Bank

by Norman Leigh

True story of how a young English clerk and 12 others won methodically and consistently at Nice, breaking the bank. His simple, easy to understand system is fully explained.

Íxcatl: El algodón mexicano

by José Rodríguez Vallejo

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...Y no se lo tragó la tierra

by Tomás Rivera

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A Call to Virginity?

by Fr. Thomas Dubay

This book offers women a theologian's view of virginal dedication, as well as reasons for choosing this lifestyle, by presenting a positive view of virginity.

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

by Agatha Christie

Christie began this book in 1950 and finished it 15 years later at age 75. She wrote 68 novels, over 100 short stories, 17 plays, published in 103 languages. This book begins from her early childhood growing up in Victorian era England to living abroad in France and Egypt, returning, marrying Archie Christie, travelling around the world with him, again returning home, meeting Max Malowan, etc. There is a lot about the middle east, various parts of England, France, and other countries. She also talks about how she became a writer and began writing novels as well as outlining when certain books were written and what gave her the ideas for them. It is a fascinating read.

Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey

by Jamake Highwater

Anpao is young and Handsome and Brave -- a man any maiden would be proud to call her husband. Any maiden but Ko-Ko-Mik-e-is, that is, who calims she belongs to the Sun alone. And so Anpao sets off for the house of the Sun to ask permission to marry the woman he loves. But Anpao's journey is not an easy one. Before he can reach the Sun, Anapao must travel back in time to the dawn of the world. He must relive his own creation, venture through The World Beneath the World, and battle the many magical mystical creatures of Native American legends. For only by doing so can Anpao discover who he really is, and rove to the Sun why he alone is worthy of the fair Ko-komik-e-is<P><P> Newbery Medal Honor book

Bad Moon Rising

by Jonathan Kirsch

The doctor lay mutilated in his living room while his wife and daughters turned the swimming pool red. Sick and twisted hatred swelled to strike again!

Beethoven

by Maynard Solomon

Biography of the composer with selective bibliography and an index of his compositions

Fat Men from Space

by Daniel Pinkwater

Hungry aliens plot a sinister junk food takeover of Earth.

Five True Dog Stories

by Margaret Davidson

This collection of true dog stories will fascinate young readers. Dox finds jewels, and criminals. Grip picks pockets, and Barry rescues people from the snow. Adventure, suspense, and animals are all here.

Full Disclosure

by William Safire

What would happen if the 41st President, while meeting with Russian leaders in the mid-1980s, were blinded in an assassination attempt?

George the Drummer Boy (I Can Read! #Level 3)

by Nathaniel Benchley

More than two hundred years ago, Boston belonged to the British. George was a drummer boy with the King's soldiers there. He wanted to be friends with the people of Boston. But they did not like the soldiers. They shouted and threw things at them. One night, George and the other soldiers were sent on a secret mission. They crossed the river and headed toward Concord. George had no idea that this was the start of the American Revolution. In this I Can Read Book, Don Bolognese's vibrant pictures capture the drama and humor of Nathaniel Benchley's exciting story.

It's Alive!

by Richard Woodley

Lenore and Frank Davis were a loving family, looking forward to their new baby, but it was a grotesque mutation, a tiny rampaging aberration.

It's Okay If You Don't Love Me

by Norma Klein

New Yorker Jody has what she thinks is a very liberated view of sex, while Midwesterner Lyle still thinks love means having to say you're sorry. "The trauma and confusion of the sexual coming-of-age by a liberated woman is presented with skill and understanding. " LIBRARY JOURNAL

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