SpaceCamel rated The Blue Sword: 5 stars

The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (Damar #1)
This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.
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This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin.
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Graham Greene, Graham Greene: The power and the glory. (1980, Penguin Books)
One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during …

László Krasznahorkai: Satan tango (2012, New Directions Pub.)
"Set in an isolated hamlet, Satantango unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain …


[This book] tells the ... story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from …

Teri Kanefield: Alexander Hamilton (2017, Abrams)
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, …

In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives …

First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Jennifer Worth: Call the Midwife (2007, Orion Publishing Group, Limited)
A memoir of the author's experiences as a nurse and certified midwife in 1950's London. She worked in the poor …

At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of …

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin form a friendship in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Life aboard a man-of-war …