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This is an essential guide for men's most pressing health questions that no manor woman who lives with himshould be without.Dr. James H. Gilbaugh, Jr., a board-certified urologist and fellow of the American College of Surgeons with twenty-five yea...

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In London in 1735, eleven-year-old Forrest Harper is living with his family in the Tower of London. There he helps his father tend the ravens and guard the prisoners. Still, life is lonely. When vicious Scottish Rebels are captured, Forrest is del...

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';As I get older and learn more of what sort of person I am, and continue sojourning to the rich soil of the Shire and the high tower of Minas Tirith, I discover that many of my notions of what is good and right and noble in this world have their ...

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William FitzWilliam Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish, is afflicted with a moneyless title. His status has earned him a beautiful fiancR)e, but the stresses of his woefully meager income are too much for young Claire to bear. She has therefore refus...

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Man's Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl's struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four dif...

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One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most freethinking and modern kind o...

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A classic since its first publication in 1863, The Water-Babies is the story of a little chimney sweep named Tom and his magical adventures beneath the waves. The ill-treated Tom flees his dangerous toil and his cruel master, Grimes. When he jumps...

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One of the most popular of Hardy's novels, this charming pastoral idyll is a lightly humorous depiction of life in an early Victorian rural community. Drawn from Hardy's childhood memories, it represents, he said, ';a true picture at first hand of...

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Padraic Colum's classic retelling combines the immortal stories from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into one glorious saga of heroism and magical adventure. Come voyage to ancient Greece with Achilles who, guided by the gods, seeks vengeance on the Tro...

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Born in 1949 to a prosperous family in Tehran, Abbas Milani grew up in an Iran of culture and tradition. He was sent to the United States for his studies, and it was there that he made his transition to adulthood, becoming active intellectually, s...

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Do miracles really happen? Can we know if the supernatural world exists?';The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.' This is th...

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The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim's Regress is, in a sense, a record of Lewis' own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction that eventually led him to Christianity. It is the story of John and his odyssey...

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Fox News political analyst William Kristol was intimately involved (along with Bush administration figures Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle) in pushing proposals to militarily attack Iraq and project American military power for a ';New American Ce...

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Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "e;fitting one civilization to another."e; Here, he takes us into his sometime...

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In Los Angeles, a geological surveyor maps out a proposed subway route-and then goes missing. His eight-year-old daughter, in her desperation, turns to the one person she thinks might help-she writes a letter to Sherlock Holmes.Reggie and Nigel He...

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C. S. Lewis is generally regarded as a commonsense Christian whose theology is understandable and practical. And yet, from his memoir Surprised by Joy to his beloved Chronicles of Narnia, from his nonfiction essays to his letters, C. S. Lewis' wor...

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When brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath chose 221B Baker Street as the location for their law office, they didn't expect that their new office space would come with one huge stipulationanswering the letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, the most famous re...

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In this comprehensive survey, William Hudson explores the forces responsible for bringing about the Renaissance, which he describes as the West's "e;transition from the medieval to the modern world."e;Voyages of discovery, inventions, the ...

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As a boy, he dreamed of being an undercover spy behind enemy lines. As a man, he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name, and for decades, his life story has awed and inspired millions. This bestselling memoir recounts the in...

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Even more thrilling thanTarzan of the Apesis the sequel,The Return of Tarzan.Combine the uncanny mystery of Conan Doyle, the vivid imagination of H. G. Wells, and the thrill of Rider Haggard's stories and you'll know why Tarzan has proved to be on...

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In the days of chivalry, when men were made of iron, young Myles Falworth, a lord's son, is forced to make his own fortune when his father is unjustly disgraced for treason. How he enters the service of a powerful lord, rises to knighthood, defeat...

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From the bestselling author of The First World War and Intelligence in War comes the most up-to-date and informed study yet of the Iraq War.John Keegan, whom the New York Review of Books calls ';the best historian of our day,' now brings his extra...

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Natan Sharansky has lived an unusual life, spending nine years as a Soviet political prisoner and nine years as an Israeli politician. In this brilliantly analytical yet personal book, Sharansky and his longtime friend and advisor Ron Dermer make ...

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';Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard PyleIt is improbable that anyone else will ev...

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"e;Hither the Gods come not at any summons. The Nameless One has insulted them and is forever alone. Go not nigh, lest their vengeance wither you away!"e; The warning was inscribed on the entrance of the hidden tomb, forgotten for millenni...

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Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder-the glory that was RomeIn this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes listeners back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routine...

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When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars. Instead, upon arriving at his remote restaurant on a volcanic pl...

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What happened to Jacques Gaillard? The brilliant teacher at the cole Nationale d'Administration, who trained some of France's best and brightest as future prime ministers and presidents, vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. This ten-year...

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Following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After, Dumas continued his D'Artagnan romances with a final trilogy set during the reign of Louis XIV. Louise de La Valli re, the second novel in that trilogy, continues the suspense which began with...

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Richard Jefferies remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. Best known for his articles and stories published in the Live Stock Journal, he draws from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into ...

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