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Bitternest: A Novel
Author: Alan DravenISBN: 978-0-595-43204-2Alan Draven’s debut novel Bitternest: A Novel will no doubt cause the adrenaline to flow with its chilling and macabre scenes where the inhabitants of Bitternest, a fictional town in Louisiana, face the risk of not only succumbing to the deathly avian influenza (H5N1 virus) but also to the real possibility of being decimated by creatures that are half-vampires and half humans. Apparently, a sizeable slice of the population that had contacted the virus...
(No rating) 5-28-2007 Views: 5568

Golem
Author: Greg VilkISBN: 0977218902The following review was contributed by: NORM GOLDMAN: Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW Norm Goldman's ReviewsWhen I picked up Greg Vilk's debut novel Golem, I immediately had a vivid recollection of my first encounter with
(No rating) 11-20-2005 Views: 3053

Russia’s Empires: Their Rise and Fall: From Prehistory to Putin
Author: Philip LongworthISBN: 071956204XPhilip Longworth’s history of Russia and the Russians stretches from deep prehistory to the very present. One of the benefits of this approach is that it makes clear just to what extent the ability to recover land and convert it to productive use, particularly in agricultural terms, has been responsible for the patterns of human settlement and state development. Longworth takes as part of his thesis the rise (and possible fall) of the four great...
(No rating) 12-19-2006 Views: 2792