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|  | Anthony, Piers CLIMATE OF CHANGE
March 01, 2010 - The author continues to tackle the story of the human race through the centuries—using a common set of characters with similar names and personalities. Here, characters named Hero, Crenelle, Rebel et al. deal with changes driven largely by natural
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| | Drake, David THE LEGIONS OF FIRE
March 01, 2010 - Unfortunately, Drake's backdrop puts tedious emphasis on protocol and the niceties of servant-aristocrat interaction, seemingly to cover up a plot that's not even half thought-out. Rich, influential but gullible senator Gaius Alphenus Saxa closets
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| | Lindskold, Jane FIVE ODD HOURS
March 01, 2010 - The novel continues the adventures of Brenda Morris, a magic-wielding present-day descendant of beings from a hidden, magical world steeped in Chinese myth. The previous book involved the creation of nine gates in order to enter this hidden world,
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| | Pitts, J.A. BLACK BLADE BLUES
March 01, 2010 - Sarah Beauhall has an unusual occupation for an urban-fantasy protagonist: She's a 26-year-old blacksmith who makes and repairs swords, sometimes for low-budget film productions. While working as a prop master on a movie called Elvis Versus the
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| The Arabian Nights: A New Edition
March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next). "There is no such thing as a canonical text of the Nights with a fixed number of stories," writes Middle East scholar Robert Irwin in his introduction to Volume 2 of Penguin Classics' new three-volume edition. So should we care that Cambridge University scholars Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, for the first time since Sir Richard Burton in the 1880s, have based this English translation on the 1839-42 Arabic edition that contains more stories than any other, usually in fuller versions? We should
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