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A Discovery of Witches מאת Deborah Harkness

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The Magicians: A Novel מאת Lev Grossman A thrilling and original comingof- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he's still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Ima...

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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything מאת Ph.D., Ken Robinson From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievementThe element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most ...

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The Women: A Novel מאת T.C. Boyle A dazzling novel of Frank Lloyd Wright, told from the point of view of the women in his lifeHaving brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights o...

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Shades of Grey: A Novel מאת Jasper Fforde From the bestselling author of Thursday Next—a brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a soci...

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D-Day: The Battle for Normandy מאת Antony Beevor The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, ...

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City of Thieves: A Novel מאת David Benioff As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original—the story of two young men on an impossible adventureA writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won’t talk about it, but his grandfather reluctan...

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Sovereign - Matthew Shardlake Mysteries #3 מאת C. J. Sansom When Henry VIII sets out to quell rebellion in the north and transport a dangerous conspirator back to London for questioning, lawyer Matthew Shardlake finds himself investigating the murder of a local glazier with unsettling ties to the royal family, a case during which he discovers a cache of secr...

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed מאת Jared Diamond In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equat...

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On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition מאת Jack Kerouac On the Road chronicles Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent-from East Coast to West Coast to Mexico-with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." Read by Will Patton...

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Revelation - Matthew Shardlake Mysteries #4 מאת C.J. Sansom The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom's newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife- much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranme...

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Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia מאת Robert Lacey What happened in the Middle East's oil-rich powerhouse- while we weren't lookingSaudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox. It is a modern state driven by contemporary technology and possessed of vast oil deposits, yet its powerful religious establishment would have its customs and practice...

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The Likeness: A Novel מאת Tana French The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She’s transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detectiv...

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East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) מאת John Steinbeck This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. "A strange a...

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Pharmakon מאת Dirk Wittenborn An epic novel about family secrets and the consequences of ambition William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in 1952, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness—and that can make him a famous man. When his experiment goes awry, and a research subject commits mu...

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Deaf Sentence: A Novel מאת David Lodge A witty, tender novel about the travails of old middle age, from a Booker finalistDesmond Bates is a recently retired linguistics professor vexed by his encroaching deafness and at loose ends in his personal life. Without the purposeful routine of the academic year, he finds his role reduced ...

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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage מאת Elizabeth Gilbert At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, eve...

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The 33 Strategies of War מאת Robert Greene Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction, espouse profound, timeless lessons from the events of history to help readers vanquish an enemy or ensnare an unsuspecting victim. Now, with The 33 Strategies of War, Greene has craft...

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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System---and Themselves מאת Andrew Ross Sorkin A real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America’s financial history by an acclaimed New York Times Reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression devel...

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The Dharma Bums: 50th Anniversary Edition מאת Jack Kerouac A deluxe edition of Kerouac’s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of its first publicationFirst published in 1958, a year after On the Road had put the Beat generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac’s most powerful, influential, and bestselling nov...

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The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars מאת Richard Overy From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells-sought a vision for a ra...

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Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between מאת Thomas Cathcart From the authors of the bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, an uproarious new book on the meaning of death (and life, too) The new book by the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psycholog...

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The Bride's Farewell מאת Meg Rosoff A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected place In Meg Rosoff's fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher's family and she's watched her mother...

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Wandering Stars מאת Sholem Aleichem The first complete translation of an epic love story by the creator of Tevye in Fiddler on the RoofNext year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem as well as the 100th anniversary of the publication of Wandering Stars, his sprawli...

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The Stress Answer: Train Your Brain to Conquer Depression and Anxiety in 45 Days מאת Dr. Frank Lawlis The bestselling author of The ADD Answer and The IQ Answer offers a powerful remedy for a universal maladyDr. Frank Lawlis has helped hundreds of thousands of families cope with learning disorders, attention deficit disorder, and emotional disconnection. Now he takes on the single bigg...

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Everything Matters!: A Novel מאת Jr., Ron Currie In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception apprai...

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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights מאת John Steinbeck A modern retelling of the legendary Arthurian tales from one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers Morte d’Arthur was one of the first books that John Steinbeck enjoyed reading as a child, and it became a favorite story to read to his own children. Here now is Steinbeck’s ...

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Family Album: A Novel מאת Penelope Lively A novel of family intrigue from "one of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day" (The Washington Post)All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid,...

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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) מאת Norman Doidge An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives...

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex מאת Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex--an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick. In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick res...

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Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life מאת David Allen The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Getting Things Done.David Allen’s Getting Things Done hit a nerve and ignited a movement with businesses, students, soccer moms, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen ...

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Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery (Matthew Shardlake Mysteries) מאת C. J. Sansom The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom’s newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife— much to the dismay of Archbi...

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The Sacred Book of the Werewolf: A Novel מאת Victor Pelevin Paranormal meets transcendental in this provocative and hilarious novel.Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most brilliant writers at work today; his comic inventiveness has won him comparisons to Kafka, Calvino, and Gogol, and Time has described him as a “psych...

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Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World מאת Tom Zoellner The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yieldUranium is a common element in the earth’s crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order—whoever could master uran...

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Short Girls: A Novel מאת Bich Minh Nguyen A mesmerizing novel about estranged sisters and the cultural and family history that binds themVan and Linny Luong are as baffling to each other as their parents' Vietnamese legacy is to them both. Van, the quintessential overachiever, has applied the same studied diligence to her law career ...

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Julia Child (Penguin Lives) מאת Laura Shapiro A biography of Julia Child from the award-winning author of Perfection Salad One of the most beloved figures in 20th century American culture was Julia Child, the bouyant "French Chef" who taught millions of Americans to cook with confidence and eat with pleasure. With an i...

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The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts מאת Tom Farley A biography of the Saturday Night Live star as told by his friends and familyNo one dominated a stage the way Chris Farley did. For him, comedy was not a routine; it was a way of life. He could not enter a room unnoticed or let a conversation go without making someone laugh. Fans knew Chris a...

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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster מאת Rebecca Solnit A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster- whether manmade or natural-people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises af...

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Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 מאת Charles Esdaile A magisterial account of the wars that engulfed Europe during the rise and fall of Napoleon. No military figure in history has been quite as polarizing as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven by an endless, ruinous quest for military glory? Or a social and political visionary brought ...

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Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America (The Documents of 20th-century art) מאת Gustav Niebuhr A bracing rejoinder both to religious fanaticism and to recent books decrying religion The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world and the most religiously diverse collection of people in history. And even in this age of increasing religious violence, there is a grow...

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Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World מאת Rafe Esquith One of America's most celebrated educators teaches parents how to create extraordinary children-in the classroom and beyondIn his bestselling book, Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, readers were introduced to Rafe Esquith and his extraordinary students in Hobart Elementary School's Room ...

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Through Black Spruce מאת Joseph Boyden A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. His niece Annie Bird, beautiful and self-reliant, has returned from her own perilous jou...

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Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan מאת Greg Mortenson From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his rele...

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Anticancer, A New Way of Life, New Edition מאת MD, PhD, David Servan-Schreiber The New York Times and international bestseller-now updated with the latest research Anticancer has been a bestselling phenomenon since Viking first published it in fall 2008. Now, a new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how peo...

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Art in America: A Novel מאת Ron McLarty A funny and heartwarming novel about a down-on-his-luck writer who finally finds success and love Steven Kearney is a bumbling, overweight writer who has produced thousands of pages of novels, plays, and poems—not a single one of which has ever been published. After being thrown out of his ...

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Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City מאת Mark Kingwell An exploration of urbanism, personal identity, and how the space we live in shapes us According to philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell, the transnational global city—New York and Shanghai—is the most significant machine our species has ever produced. And yet, he says, we fail ag...

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After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age מאת Paul Starobin Farsighted and fascinating predictions for a new world order in which America is no longer number oneThe world is now at a hinge moment in its history, according to veteran international correspondent Paul Starobin. A once-dominant America has reached the end of its global ascendancy, and the...

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The Genesis Secret: A Novel מאת Tom Knox In this epic thriller, a secret with shocking consequences is buried deep in the Middle Eastern desertA remarkable discovery has been made in the far reaches of Kurdistan. A Western archaeological team has unearthed the oldest human civilization-older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge. Sent to...

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The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War מאת Caroline Alexander A groundbreaking reading of the Iliad that restores Homer's vision of the tragedy of war, by the bestselling author of The Bounty Few warriors, in life or literature, have challenged their commanding officer and the rationale of the war they fought as fiercely as did Homer's her...

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Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood מאת Suzanne Braun Levine Ten lessons to maximize creativity and happiness in the second half of lifeIn this inspiring new book, Suzanne Braun Levine follows her groundbreaking Inventing the Rest of Our Lives with fresh insights, research, and practical advice on the challenges and unexpected rewards for women ...

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Dune Road: A Novel מאת Jane Green A sparkling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Jane Green's last novel, The Beach House, was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured her largest audience yet. From the sunny green lawns of Connecticut to the cafés of ...

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Financial Peace Revisited מאת Dave Ramsey Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace<...

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Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival מאת Robert Sabbag A bestselling author tells the terrifying and inspiring story of the plane crash he survivedAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight 248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot died but the copilot and eight passengers survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Ro...

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Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story מאת Sue Monk Kidd An introspective and beautiful dual memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling novelist and her daughterSue Monk Kidd has touched millions of readers with her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair and with her acclaimed nonfiction. In this intimate dual me...

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Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin מאת Norah Vincent The journalist who famously lived as a man commits herself— literallyNorah Vincent’s New York Times bestselling book, Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger...

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The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World מאת John Demos A cultural history of witch-hunting, from the Romans through McCarthyThe term “witch-hunt” is used today to describe everything from political scandals to school board shake-ups. But its origins are far from trivial. Long before the Salem witch trials, women and men were rounded up by nei...

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Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior מאת Geoffrey Miller A leading evolutionary psychologist probes the hidden instincts behind our working, shopping, and spending Evolutionary psychology-the compelling science of human nature-has clarified the prehistoric origins of human behavior and influenced many fields ranging from economics to personal relat...

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The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling מאת Peter Ackroyd A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer's classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to mode...

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A Rumpole Christmas: Stories מאת John Mortimer The first ever collection of Rumpole Christmas stories- just in time for the holidays A Rumpole Christmas is a collection of five holiday stories-never before published in book form- depicting the Old Bailey Hack at his lovable best. In "Rumpole and Father Christmas," the English barri...

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No Survivors: A Novel (Accident Man Novels) מאת Tom Cain The “Accident Man” returns to prevent a global holy warTom Cain’s The Accident Man introduced Samuel Carver—a man hired to make bad things happen—to rave reviews from major newspapers and fellow thriller writers alike. Now, Carver is back in an action packed new adventure tha...

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The Signal: A Novel מאת Ron Carlson A beautifully written and suspenseful tale of love and peril by an award-winning writer Backpacking into the Wind River Mountains on their tenth annual trip, Mack and his wife, Vonnie, find the magnificent woods and stunning mountains of Wyoming full of ghosts and danger. Mack comes from a lo...

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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention מאת Stanislas Dehaene A renowned cognitive neuroscientist's fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the ...

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Summertime: Fiction מאת J. M. Coetzee Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thi...

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Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings מאת Abolqasem Ferdowsi Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Isla...

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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking מאת Charles Seife The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion...

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Why Evolution Is True מאת Jerry A. Coyne Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a factIn all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant “intelligent design,” there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned—the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural ...

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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History) מאת Timothy R. Pauketat The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented civilization Almost a thousand years ago, a Native American city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Cahokia was a thriving metropolis at its height with a population of twenty thousand, a sprawling centr...

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English: A Novel מאת Wang Gang A captivating coming-of-age novel in the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressDuring the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution, a twelve-year-old boy named Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China’s remote northwest. Here, con...

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The Rags of Time: A Novel מאת Maureen Howard The concluding volume in a quartet of highly acclaimed novels that include A Lover's Almanac, Big as Life, and The Silver Screen Maureen Howard's new novel is the last in a beautifully written and boldly structured cycle of four books, woven as a tapestry of the seasons, that cr...

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A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America מאת Dudley Clendinen Old age in America is not what it used to be In 1994 New York Times writer Dudley Clendinen’s mother—a Southern matron of iron will but creaking bones—sold her house and moved to Canterbury Tower, a geriatric apartment building with full services and a nursing wing in Tampa Bay....

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The Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries) מאת Craig Johnson Walt Longmire goes undercover to save a woman in an unfriendly place Interweaving classic noir sensibilities and humor with contemporary themes of social justice, Craig Johnson's popular Walt Longmire mysteries transport readers to the sparse and rugged landscape of Wyoming. In The Dark Ho...

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Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel מאת Garrison Keillor A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. But what is going on between Clint Bunsen and Miss Liberty?Clint Bunsen is one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon— the treasurer of the Lutheran church and the auto mechanic who starts your car on below-zero mornings. For six ...

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Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East מאת Dennis Ross Two experts debunk misconceptions about the Middle East and set clear-eyed policies for the futureWhy has the United States consistently failed to achieve its strategic goals in the Middle East? According to Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, two of America's leading experts on the region, it is...

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Moon River and Me: A Memoir מאת Andy Williams A remarkable memoir by one of the most popular and beloved entertainers of the twentieth century When in the mid-1950s Andy Williams reached a low point in his career, singing in dives to ever-smaller audiences, the young man from Wall Lake, Iowa, had no inkling of the success he would one da...

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Thucydides: The Reinvention of History מאת Donald Kagan A reconsideration of the first modern historian and his methods from a renowned scholarThe grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and the work and its author have had an enduring inf...

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Rescue Ink: How Ten Guys Saved Countless Dogs and Cats, Twelve Horses, Five Pigs, One Duck,and a Few Turtles מאת Rescue Ink The true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in dangerUsing their combined 1700 pounds of muscle, Joe, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Eric, Des, Bruce and Robert stop at nothing within the bounds of the law to save animals, be they furred, feathered, or scaled, from...

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The Secret Scripture מאת Sebastian Barry A gorgeous new novel from the author of the Man Booker finalist A Long Long Way As a young woman, Roseanne McNulty was one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland. Now, as her hundredth year draws near, she is a patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, and sh...

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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy מאת John R. Hale A stirring history of the world's first dominant navy and the towering empire it built The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come. The Athenian navy built a ci...

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How to Meet a Man After Forty: and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved מאת Shane Watson For all of the forty-plus Bridget Joneses-a refreshingly funny guide to middle-aging with grace After marrying the man of her dreams while in her midforties, Shane Watson took a trip to her local beauty salon and found herself mobbed by fellow patrons eager to know how she did it. The experie...

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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 מאת Rafe Esquith From one of America’s most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child’s education In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth graders inside are first-generation immigrant...

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Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species מאת Mira Tweti There are an estimated 50 million parrots kept as pets the U.S. alone, their numbers surpassed only by dogs and cats, yet these complex creatures are not your typical domesticated animal, and they remain a mystery to many. Most people don’t know that parrots score at the level of 3-to-5 year olds...

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The Possession of Mr. Cave: A Novel מאת Matt Haig A novel of chilling suspense about a father who will do anything to protect his teenage daughterFollowing the tragic deaths of his wife and son, antiques dealer Terence Cave is left alone to raise his only daughter, fifteen-year-old Bryony. As the young girl struggles to come to terms with th...

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Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon מאת Craig Nelson A richly detailed and dramatic account of one of the greatest achievements of humankind At 9:32 A.M. on July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 rocket launched in the presence of more than a million spectators who had gathered to witness a truly historic event. It carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, an...

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The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory מאת David Plouffe The architect of the Obama campaign reveals how it all happened- and how it will revolutionize our politics David Plouffe not only led the effort that put Barack Obama in the White House, but he also changed the face of politics forever and reenergized the idea of democracy itself. The Aud...

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Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting מאת Meredith Norton A hilarious and wickedly irreverent look at life with cancerLopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Meredith Norton chronicles every step of her experience, starting with her bizarre symptoms while living in Paris to moving back home to California and living with her compulsive pa...

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A Christmas Blizzard מאת Garrison Keillor A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy he’s not quite rich enough to expand his cache of paintings by Vincent Van Guy, the famed Dutch realist) bound for Christ...

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Herman Melville (Penguin Lives) מאת Elizabeth Hardwick A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's rich analysis of "the whole of Melville's works, uneven as it is, and the challenging sha...

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Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . מאת Ph.D. Philip Plait A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe’s most fascinating events.According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and supern...

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The Mitford Snowmen (Mitford Christmas) מאת Jan Karon It's Christmastime in Mitford, and everyone's favorite characters are filled with holiday spirit. In The Mitford Snowmen, a swirling snowfall brings them to Main Street for a snowman-building contest complete with doughnuts, hot chocolate, and contagious good cheer. A charming small tri...

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Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1) מאת Jan Karon Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels have been captivated by Jan Karon’s “gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world” (People). They learned quickly that “after you’ve spent time in Mitford, you’ll want to com...

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Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon (Aunt Dimity Mystery) מאת Nancy Atherton Lori’s peaceful English village is being overrun by a rowdy and mischievous Renaissance fairLori Shepherd loves living in the small English village of Finch, but as her eighth summer in the town approaches she finds herself wishing for something exciting to spice up her all-too-familiar rou...

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Imperial מאת William T. Vollmann An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writersIt sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border. For generations of migrant workers, from Okies fleeing...

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Miss Julia Delivers the Goods: A Novel מאת Ann B. Ross Get ready for double the trouble and twice the fun in Ann B. Ross’s tenth Miss Julia adventureIf there’s no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be absolutely exhausted. She’s just learned a secret—Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. B...

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Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier: The Penguin Library of American Indian History מאת Timothy J. Shannon A vividly drawn portrait of the powerful Iroquois nation during colonial America In the fourth title in The Penguin Library of American Indian History, Timothy J. Shannon tells the story of the most influential Native American confederacy of the colonial era. The Iroquois occupied a strategi...

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Another Man's Moccasins: A Walt Longmire Mystery (Walt Longmire Mysteries) מאת Craig Johnson Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty years When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horr...

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The House of Bilqis: A Novel מאת Azhar Abidi A haunting novel about a mother and son and the emotional consequences of leaving homeBilqis Ara Begum, an aristocratic widow, is dismayed when her only son, Samad, marries Kate, an Australian girl, and settles in Melbourne rather than returning home to Pakistan. Though Samad attempts to pers...

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It's OK if You're Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound מאת Terry McMillan From bestselling author Terry McMillan, life wisdom for high school graduates and those who love them When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry McMillan was asked to be the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony. Determined not to be dull or redundant, Terry thoug...

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A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare'sThe Tempest מאת Hobson Woodward A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacyIn 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on un...

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Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul מאת Kenneth R. Miller A leading scientist examines the battle between evolution and Intelligent Design in America At the dawn of the twenty- first century, the debate over Darwin’s theory of evolution is nearly as contentious as it was in the notorious Scopes trial a century ago. Today, however, people who belie...

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Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books מאת Jan Karon Millions of Mitford fans around the world will agree—it’s easy to put on a pound or two reading a Mitford novel. Scene after scene of the bestselling series’ colorful characters enjoying tantalizing dishes can immediately start a craving. Then, before you know it, you’ve read s...