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The "George Washington of South America" was far more complex and interesting than his familiar tag-line suggests - as a big, fantastic new biography makes abundantly clear
Read MoreScience fiction grand master Ben Bova sets his latest novel on the far side of the moon
Read MoreIn her latest bestseller, J. R. Ward's two most loved (and lusted-after) bad-boy vampires finally get their turn in the spotlight
Read MoreA new book by a legendary scholar charts the journey of early Christianity from a charismatic cult to the official religion of an empire
Read MoreA young Swedish girl travels to England and becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I herself
Read MoreAn intelligent, sensitive Dominican novice finds herself at the heart of passionate conspiracies in the England of Henry VIII
Read MoreIf comic book artist P. Craig Russell didn't exist, we'd have to dream him up. Under the covers with a flashlight, Justin Hickey illuminates a pair of his sublime literature adaptations.
Read More"The Gods of Copley Square"s spirited multi-part examination of Boston's Trinity Church (and its indomitable bishop-saint) comes to its conclusion right where it should: at the heart of worship
Read More"New York Dash"by Greg Waldmann
Read MoreThe richest denizens of the Edwardian Era swan around in their finest stuff, immortalized by the likes of Sargent and Boldini, and a sumptuous new book from Yale University Press records it all
Read MoreJack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality
Read MoreA neurosurgeon's reflections on his time in a coma convince him that it held the secret to the universe.
Read MoreIn a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.
Read MoreIn a welcome reprint, a brave but untried young 12th century knight must learn how to fight - and take a bride
Read MoreThe greatest sci-fi novel of all time is inaugurated into the Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics library
Read MoreDavid Halberstam's 1968 profile of candidate Robert Kennedy gets a new reprint for a new generation
Read MoreThe barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns
Read MoreWith the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.
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