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A Tale of Adventure
by Michael Chabon
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by Michael Ondaatje
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsA spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
by David Mitchell
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsA magnificent mix of luminous writing, prodigious research, and heedless imagination, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the most impressive achievement of its eminent author.
by Isabel Allende
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsA swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became Zorro, the masked man we all know so well.
by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsThe first in a new series by the author of The Club Dumas , set in 17th Century Spain. Captain Alatristee earns his living as a swordsman-for-hire, but when he's commissioned to murder two travelers by a member of the Spanish Inquisition he finds himself involved in a plot with implications that will reverberate throughout the courts of Europe...
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