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Former military journalist recounts the history of assault rifles, including Mikhail Kalashnikov's AK-47 and its descendants, such as the AKM…
and the AKS. Discusses the invention, distribution, and use of the weapons and the consequences of their global availability. 2010
Management professor Christensen details the faith-based perseverance of Olson (born 1997), who was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at the age of…
eight months and lost his second eye to cancer in 2009. Offers suggestions for overcoming challenges, such as making happiness a habit and developing the winner within you. 2013
London, 1799. Lady Xenobia India St. Clair is renowned for her unique decorating skills. When wealthy Thorn Dautry, illegitimate son…
of a duke, requests her services to impress his future bride's family, India agrees to the project. But their attraction threatens his plans. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2014
Clinical psychologists' guide to postretirement living emphasizes staying in one's home. They offer advice on financial planning, universal home design,…
transportation issues, health care, and accessibility of services, and provide checklists and worksheets. 2013
Eight-year-olds Tasha and Jason, a paraplegic, become best friends when Jason moves next door. Inseparable through high school, they drift…
apart in college--only to renew their friendship in their twenties. But by their thirties they are engaged to other people. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
Boston heiress Hannah Cooper's stepfather banishes her to Great Britain to find a husband. Canadian-born Asher MacGregor, the Earl of…
Balfour, is tasked with escorting her through London's social season while conducting his own search. Neither wants a spouse, but the two misfits gradually find much in common. 2014
Chronicles England from the prehistoric Mesolithic era of 10,000 B.C.E. through the Roman, Viking, Saxon, and Norman conquests to the…
death of the first Tudor king in 1509. Discusses the evolutions in government, religion, laws, climate, and everyday life. 2011
As a spy for the Foreign Office, courtesan Lily Dawson's mission is to seduce the Duke of Ravenscroft--a lecherous and…
dangerous man. But her secret love for Andrew, the duke's son, puts her in a precarious situation. Some violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2014
Author of Fordlandia (DB 69852) investigates American captain Amasa Delano's 1805 discovery of a distressed Spanish ship in the South…
Pacific that had been taken over by its African slaves--an event that inspired Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno. Discusses the slave trade in the Americas and its horrors. Violence. 2014
The evolution of the city of Paris from its medieval French past to the celebrated "City of Light." Explores the…
seventeenth-century urban planning that created Europe's first great walking city and the diverse social, political, and artistic forces that gave birth to the modern metropolis. 2014
Three friends find strength and solace in their Sister-to-Sister Christian ministry. Pam's husband wasted their fortune, and she suspects he…
is having an affair; Taylor's ex is released from prison; and Yvonne discovers the true meaning of friendship. Descriptions of sex. 2013
Blackberry Island, Washington. Nina, a nurse, plays the role of the responsible family member for her mother and sister Averil.…
But now two men from her past are interested in Nina. Then Averil leaves her husband and returns to the island. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2014
Still grieving over the recent deaths of her husband Joe and her best friend Lee, sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, an American…
citizen, becomes involved with a Cambodian family that has moved in next door. Like Hattie, her new neighbors hope for a fresh start in small-town Vermont. Some strong language. 2010
Cultural historian examines connections between the development of American restaurants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the…
evolution of the middle class. Discusses menus, service to women, and the gradual acceptance of various ethnic foods. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary historian Wills reexamines the work and legacy of historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), a descendant of two American…
presidents. Depicts Adams's extensive research of U.S. and European archives to produce a nine-volume portrait of the United States during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. 2005
Curate Callie Anson puzzles over her relationship with Mark Lombardi and helps a parishioner who is reeling from a new…
cancer diagnosis and the disappearance of her granddaughter. Inspector Stewart investigates the missing-girl case and the murder of a pregnant woman's husband while dealing with his own on-again-off-again romance. 2007
Science writer and Time Magazine editor Kluger explores the psychology of siblings using his own family as an example. Discusses…
genetics, birth order, gender, favoritism, divorce, twins, and blended families to explain the lifelong influence and benefits of brothers and sisters. 2011
Hired gun Jim Garry, a good man at heart, dislikes the job his friend Tate Riling has recruited him to…
do--swindling a landowner and his family out of their property. Instead, Garry double-crosses Riling, putting himself in peril. Basis for movie starring Robert Mitchum. Some violence. 1941
Henry Childs is only seventeen when he elopes with Mercy, a judge's daughter. Mercy's family opposes the match and violently…
separates the couple. Now alone, Henry joins the marines and faces the horrors of war in Korea. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2012
After a mysterious costumed assailant murders the stage manager of an acting troupe traveling on the Denver & Rio Bravo…
line, the train-line owner hires Faraday's company to investigate. Faraday sends newly widowed Jim Stone undercover. Violence and some strong language. 1989