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Where Good Ideas Come From
Published: 2011-10-04
Paperback: 352 pages
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The printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our society, our culture? Steven...
Man's Search for Meaning, Gift Edition
Published: 2014-10-28
Hardcover: 200 pages
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A new gift edition of a modern classic, with supplemental photographs, speeches, letters, and essays Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir of life in Nazi death camps has riveted generations of readers. Based on Frankl’s own experience and the stories of his patients, the book argues t...
Early One Morning
Published: 2015-09-29
Hardcover: 400 pages
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Two women's decision to save a child during WWII will have powerful reverberations over the years.Chiara Ravello is about to flee occupied Rome when she locks eyes with a woman being herded on to a truck with her family.Claiming the woman's son, Daniele, as her own nephew, Chiara demands h...
Down Among the Dead Men (A Detective Peter Diamond Mystery)
Published: 2015-07-07
Hardcover: 384 pages
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Peter Diamond takes a dive down among the dead men to solve a seven-year-old murder case in the latest installment of Peter Lovesey's classic procedural series.In a Sussex town on the south coast of England, a widely disliked art teacher at a posh private girls’ school disappears without...
The Year She Left Us: A Novel (P.S.)
Published: 2015-05-12
Paperback: 352 pages
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From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize—comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "h...
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book)
Published: 2003-06-23
Hardcover: 176 pages
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1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on...
White Collar Girl: A Novel
Published: 2015-11-03
Paperback: 448 pages
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The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition... Every second of every day, something is happening. There’s a story out there b...
A Death in the Family: A Detective Kubu Mystery
Published: 2015-10-27
Hardcover: 368 pages
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"There's no easy way to say this, Kubu. Your father's dead. I'm afraid he's been murdered."Faced with the violent death of his own father, Assistant Superintendent David 'Kubu' Bengu, the smartest detective in the Botswana police, is baffled. Who would kill such a frail old man? Kubu's...
The Pawnbroker: A Novel
Published: 2015-11-10
Paperback: 279 pages
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For most of us, remembering the Holocaust requires effort; we listen to stories, watch films, read histories. But the people who came to be called ?survivors” could not avoid their memories. Sol Nazerman, protagonist of Edward Lewis Wallant’s The Pawnbroker, is one such sufferer.At 45,...
Think of a Number (Dave Gurney, No. 1): A Novel (A Dave Gurney Novel)
Published: 2012-06-05
Paperback: 448 pages
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An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation. Arriving in the mail over a period of ...
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