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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But, as MIT technology and society specialist Sherry Turkle ar...

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Rora

by James Byron Huggins

Published: 2001-06

Hardcover: 471 pages

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In an eloquent word painting that could be his most significant and profound work ever, author James Byron Huggins has resurrected the magnificent story of RORA from the yellowing and dusty records of history, robed it in flesh and blood, infused breath and spirit, and created a vivid saga...

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A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent

by Marie Brennan

Published: 2013-02-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Marie Brennan begins a thrilling new fantasy series in A Natural History of Dragons, combining adventure with the inquisitive spirit of the Victorian Age.You, dear reader, continue at your own risk. It is not for the faint of heart—no more so than the study of dragons itself. But such st...

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War Dances

by Sherman Alexie

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 208 pages

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In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angle...

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Red Mandarin Dress: An Inspector Chen Novel (Inspector Chen Novels)

by Qiu Xiaolong

Published: 2009-02-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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A serial killer is stalking the young women of Shanghai. The killer’s calling card is to leave the victims’ bodies in well trafficked locations, each of them redressed in a red mandarin dress. With the newspapers screaming about Shanghai’s first serial killer, Party officials anxious...

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The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

by Margaret Regan

Published: 2010-10-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others  For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration s...

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Alice Bliss: A Novel

by Laura Harrington

Published: 2012-05-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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A Boston Globe bestseller "Nothing less than a fully realized vision of a young complicated girl." —Entertainment WeeklyTomboy Alice Bliss is heartbroken when she learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq. Matt will miss seeing Alice blossom into a full-blown teenager: s...

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City of Bones: Movie Tie-in Edition (The Mortal Instruments)

by Cassandra Clare

Published: 2013-07-09

Paperback: 528 pages

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Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013.Enter the world of the Shadowhunters in this special edition of the New York Times bestselling City of Bones, complete with gorgeous cover art from the movie.When fifteen-year-ol...

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Trojan Horse (Sasha Del Mira)

by David Lender

Published: 2012-01-17

Paperback: 518 pages

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Daniel Youngblood is a world-weary oil and gas investment banker who's ready to hit the beach, when he's hired by a Saudi Prince for an OPEC deal where he can net himself $25 million as a swan song. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with Lydia, an exotic European fashion phot...

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A Girl from Yamhill

by Beverly Cleary

Published: 1996-10-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Generations of children have grown up with Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and all of their friends, families, and assorted pets. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Bever...