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  One More for the Road

  by Ray Bradbury

  America has no finer teller of tales than Ray Bradbury. Now the master treats us to another round -- eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected -- a rich elixir distilled from the pungent fruit of experience and imagination, expertly prepared by a superior mixologist.This glass overflows with a heady brew: a house where time has no boundaries; the comforts of arguments... (more)
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  Albion's Seed

  Four British Folkways in America

  by David Hackett Fischer

  This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. Itis a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.
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  Queen's Gambit Declined

  by Melinda M. Snodgrass

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  Young Blood

  by Mike Baker

  A collection of terrifying tales features early works from Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, and other writers. Original.
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  Cavalier

  A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses

  by Lucy Worsley

  From the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in England , a vivid portrait of a seventeenth-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War.   William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured. His passions were architecture, horses, and women. And, along with the whole courtly world of King Charles I and his... (more)