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The first mature and persuasive work to explain the process of natural selection.

A young Indian boy in the Canadian wilderness carves a twelve-inch canoe with a kneeling Indian figure and frees it to undertake a journey to the Atlantic Ocean in his place.

The Continental Op is a short, squat, and utterly unsentimental tank of a private detective. Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young, wealthy, and a devotee of morphine and religious cults.

Tommy Wilhelm is separated from his family, at odds with his father, failed in his career, and in a financial mess.

These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; an

Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Schultz didn't learn he had dyslexia until his son was diagnosed.

Ship hurtles through space, carrying the seed of humankind. Launched by the people of a dying Earth, its mission is to find a habitable world for the children it created from its genetic banks.

The Continental Op investigates the killing of his client, the last honest citizen in an extremely corrupt town.

Early on the morning of December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched a massive surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

More than twenty years have passed since Ship left the seed of mankind on an uninhabited planet.

After Ship settled humans on planet Home, it promised to return. Over time, and with conflict, the colony divided.

Every fifteen years, trouble comes after the three Slocumb women. Now, as the youngest turns fifteen, she's desperate to know who used their yard as a makeshift cemetery, and why.

In 1937, the Japanese army swept into Nanking and systematically raped, tortured, and murdered some 300,000 Chinese civilians.

Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas.

This masterpiece of military history recounts the fateful hours that preceded and followed the invasion of Normandy, retelling the story of an epic battle that turned the tide against world fascism