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The Road to Victory
David Colley
The Red Ball Operation, the vital train of supplies improvised by American troops during the invasion of Europe, was one of the GIs' bravest exploits, without which World War II would have dragged on at a terri...
Anvil of Stars
Greg Bear
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking ...
Appointment in Jerusalem
Max I. Dimont
Biblical historian Max Dimont, author of the classic JEWS, GOD, AND HISTORY, explores the mystery surrounding the predictions Jesus made about his fate. Examining the gospel, Dimont recreates the drama in thre...
Sounding
Hank Searls
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Courting an Angel
Patricia Grasso
There was a familiar feel in the air. She knew it well, knew exactly by whom that sensation had been provoked. But could it be? Could it really be he? He was the one man who set her soul on fire. He was also th...
The Coroner's Lunch
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Stage Door Canteen
Maggie Davis
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Dangerous Masquerade
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Past Imperative
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The Stoned Apocalypse
Marco Vassi
Marco Vassi was possibly the greatest erotic writer of his generation. His first publisher at Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias, compares his talent for prose to Henry Miller’s writing. His sexual exploratio...
Always Leave 'Em Dying
Richard S. Prather
Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and sex and violence on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs...
Prince of Midnight
Laura Kinsale
A tarnished legend driven into exile deep within the depths of a crumbling French castle was once the Prince of Midnight. Now he is just a forgotten shadow. She is seeking the hero but finds herself weary of th...
Blood Music
Greg Bear
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day event...
No Quarter Asked
Janet Dailey
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Shatterday
Harlan Ellison
Mercurial, belligerent, passionately in love with language and wild ideas, Harlan Ellison has, for half a century, steadily gathered to himself and his thirty-seven books an undeniably fanatical readership. W...
New York Times reporter Danielle Belopotosky has done us a big favor by lining up all the prominent e-book readers and comparing and contrasting them. If you’re shopping for one as a gift – and e-readers are shaping up to be the runaway favorite gift for the holiday season – then Belopotosky’s article is a must. And though, unsurprisingly, the Kindle still dominates the pack, her article makes it clear that “it’s no longer just Amazon’s story.” In fact, she seems to favor Barnes & Noble’s Nook, calling it “The e-reader of the moment.”
Listed are:
AMAZON’S KINDLE, $259
NOOK FROM BARNES & NOBLE, $259
SONY READER TOUCH PRS-600, $300, AND DAILY READER, $400
QUE, FROM PLASTIC LOGIC (NO PRICE: DEBUTS JANUARY 7)
IREX DR800SG, $399
COOL-ER, FROM INTEREAD, $249
DISNEY DIGITAL BOOKS, $8.95 A MONTH
E-Reads has covered almost all of these devices, so go to our home page and enter the name of the e-book reader in the search box. And you must certainly check out Belopotosky’s Something to Read in the New York Times.
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