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By Stephen Hawking
In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than...
By Art Spiegelman
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By Frank Herbert
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By Neal Stephenson
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the...
By Robert Jordan
In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally...
By Jasper Fforde
Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun - a novel unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his...
By Augustine of Hippo,
Henry Chadwick (Translator/Introduction), Simon Vance (Narrator), Albert Cook Outler (Translator)
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the...
By Charlaine Harris
After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone human and otherwise is stressed, including...