Book Review: The Romans Who Shaped Britain
/A lively new personality-driven look at the centuries of Roman rule in the British Isles
Read MoreA lively new personality-driven look at the centuries of Roman rule in the British Isles
Read MoreThe posthumous memoir of a beloved Southern writer
Read MoreThe well-spoken son of a lesbian couple becomes a YouTube sensation - and an author.
Read MoreD. Graham Burnett, a young historian of science, produces a fantastic and important encyclopedic history of the long, torturous, often retrograde progress toward "Save the Whales."
Read MoreIn the latest Ian Rutledge mystery, a man walks into Scotland Yard, confesses to a long-ago murder, and shortly afterward is himself found murdered - and the game's afoot!
Read MoreKirk and crew must conduct a rescue mission on a planet that disappears every three years - and is set to vanish mighty soon!
Read MoreA heapingly generous helping of the letters of history's most popular novelist
Read MoreNot-quite-brothers search for their not-quite-mother in this colorful mini-series, now in a hardcover collection
Read MoreThe latest selection of reprints from one of America's most-praised novelists
Read MoreA big, pugnacious account of the post-WWII world
Read MoreHe survived years of dangerous exile, won his crown on the battlefield, and founded one of the most famous dynasties in human history - and yet we still haven't embraced Henry VII. A spirited biography seeks to change that.
Read Morea fact-filled compendium of killer creatures!
Read MoreA darkly dazzling new Edwardian novel to tempt fans of "Downton Abbey"
Read Morethe latest black-and-white omnibus collection of the adventures of Marvel Comics' super-team par excellence, The Mighty Avengers
Read MoreA new biography of Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom a King of England abdicated
Read MoreA sumptuous catalogue of the earliest artwork from ancient Egypt
Read Morea new book sifts the evidence for a few flash-point topics in the life of Meriwether Lewis
Read MoreA gigantic new anthology of creepy, unbalanced, and openly threatening short fiction
Read MoreA new reprint of a classic book about a hardscrabble pride of lions in Kenya
Read MoreIn the latest Maisie Dobbs novel, the clouds of war are gathering
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