A World Too Wide

Romance

Moore, Susanna

Historical

St Martins Pr

Relatively Dangerous : an Inspector Alvarez novel

JEFFRIES, Roderic

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The Tears of Things

McInerny, Ralph M.

Literature & Fiction

Long unavailable, this acclaimed book traces the history of an ideal and examines its effect on the lives of those caught up in the First World War. Rupert Brooke's apparent enthusiasm for the War in 1914 was echoed throughout England, particularly by young men who had been educated in a gentlemanly tradition of patriotism, chivalry and sportsmanship at their public schools. These codes had also trickled down through society thanks to the school stories that appeared in popular boys' magazines, and to the missions and boys' clubs run by the schools and universities in the poorer parts of the country.Â Drawing upon a wealth of material, Peter Parker's fascinating book traces the growth and dissemination ofÂ what Wilfred Owen dismissed as â€˜the old lie' in his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est. It also explores the wide variety of responses to the war - from celebration to denigration, from patriotic acquiescence to bitter rebellion - as they were reflected in the poetry, plays and prose of the period.Â The Old Lie unearths some truly bizarre notions about education and warfare and illuminatingly re-examines the literature of the First World War by placing it in its historical and social perspective. &gt;

Old Lie: The Great War and the Public School Ethos

History

Parker, Peter

Europe

The Twelve

Kaminsky, Howard

Kaminsky, Susan

Thrillers & Suspense

A Prisoner of Birth

Archer,Jeffrey

Some people have dreams that are so magnificent that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. People like Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Edison, Nancy Astor, Charles Lindbergh, Amy Johnson, Edmund Hilary and Neil Armstrong—their unparalleled success has made their stories into legend. But what if one man had such a dream, and once he’d achieved it, there was no proof that he had fulfilled his ambition?
Jeffrey Archer’s new novel, Paths of Glory, is the story of such a man—George Mallory. Born in 1886, he was a brilliant student who became part of the Bloomsbury Group at Cambridge in the early twentieth century and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I. After the war, he married, had three children, and would have spent the rest of his life as a schoolteacher, but for his love of mountain climbing.
Mallory once told a reporter that he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, “because it is there.” On his third try in 1924, at age thirty-seven, he was last seen four hundred feet from the top. His body was found in 1999, and it remains a mystery whether he and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, ever reached the summit.
In fact, not until you’ve turned the last page of Archer’s extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to that list of legends, while another name would have to be removed. Paths of Glory is truly a triumph.

Paths of Glory

Genre Fiction

Piece of My Heart: the Life, Times and Legend of Janis Joplin

Arts & Photography

Dalton, David

Music

The Man from Lake Wobegon

This biography of Garrison Keillor examines the phenomenon of his tremendous popularity as a writer and as a radio host, as well as the forces that have driven Keillor to the forefront of popular American culture

Biographies & Memoirs

Fedo, Michael W.

Arts & Literature

A tribute to the television rock group the Monkees features biographies of the Monkees and information about their music, TV series, movie, fans, and post-Monkees careers

Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees

Hogan, Peter

Czarnota, Tom

Baker, Glenn A.

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