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On The Trail of Anonymous
by Don Wayne Foster
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by Michael Gruber
Published Mar 2008
Read ReviewsAn intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a deadly conspiracy and a chase to find a priceless treasure involving William Shakespeare. As he awaits a killeror killersunknown, Jake writes an account of the events that led to this deadly endgame, a frantic chase that began with a fire in an antiquarian bookstore.
by Peter Ackroyd
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsShakespeare: The Biography is quite unlike other more analytic biographies that have been written. Ackroyd uses his skill, his extraordinary knowledge, and his historical intuition to craft this major full-scale book on one of the most towering figures of the English language.
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the Oxford English Dictionary. Browse an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse.
by David Sacks
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet, and into cultural history with twenty-six fact-filled "biographies" of letters A through Z.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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