New Releases by Piers Paul Read

To chronicle the catastrophe, the author interviewed the engineers and operators on duty at the time, talked to the director, now serving a ten year sentence for negligence, visited the previously top-secret Kurchatov Institute, Moscow''s Hospital No. 6, and the once-closed city of Obninsk. The author also gained access to the transcripts of the trail of the reactor operators, the protocol of the previously secret Medical Commission, and other confidential reports. Includes 16 pages of bandw photos. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This novel hinges on the notion of what would happen if a group of Israeli archaeologists found the skeletal remains of Jesus of Nazareth.

Bertrand de Roujay was a free Frenchman, a Catholic aristocrat and conservative. He was swept away by the magnificent Madeleine Bonnet, daughter of a leftist historian--and by the rising tide of World War II. "Vivid and vigorous . . . absorbing and rich".--The New Yorker.

Chronique romanesque qui nous rapporte, à l''occasion des faits et gestes d''un Français né avec le siècle, l''évolution des mentalités devant les séquelles de la Grande Guerre, le montée du communisme et du nazisme, la guerre d''Espagne pour traiter de la Résistance et de la collaboration. Ensemble de circonstances filtré par les consciences du principal protagoniste et de ses nombreux parents et amis à travers une trame bien organisée.

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