James D. Hooppaw - Where the Buf Fellows Roamed

Bryce Courtenay - The Power of One

In this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II.

Olivia Coolidge - Trojan War

Retells legends of the heroes of the Trojan War, which began with Paris of Troy's abduction of Helen, wife of Menelaus, lord of Greece.

Margaret B. Klapthor, White House Historical Association, Allida M. Black, National Geographic Society (U.S.) - The First Ladies

Brief biographies and portraits of forty-two wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Barbara Bush.

Gene Wilder - My French Whore

The Academy Award-winning actor and author of < IT > Kiss Me Like a Stranger < RO > recounts the tale of a midwestern World War I soldier whose capture by German forces prompts him to impersonate a ...

The Iliad

This " plain English " translation of the epic poem recounts the triumphs and defeats of the Greek and Trojan heroes during the Trojan War and the destruction of Troy by combined Greek armies. ...

Kenneth Johnson and A.C. Crispin - V: The Second Generation

With Earth reeling under the alien Visitors' brutal control, the human underground may finally get the chance to thwart their reptilian overlords when another alien race answers the call for help in ...

Elmer Kelton - The Rebels: Sons of Texas

In the mid-1830s, the Lewis brothers--Andrew, Michael, and James--the sons of Mordecai Lewis, become caught up in the fierce battle for Texas independence from Mexico, in the finale of a trilogy that ...

Richard Condon - The Manchurian Candidate

Sergeant Raymond Shaw, a former prisoner of war, Congressional Medal of Honor winner, and American hero, is transformed into a programmed assassin by a Chinese psychological expert during his ...

William Shakespeare, Eric Rasmusse N, Eugene M. Waith, John Fletcher, G.R. Proudfoot - The Two Noble Kinsmen