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My Real Children

by Jo Walton

Published: 2014-05-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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It’s 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. “Confused today,” read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark a...

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Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

by James Patterson

Published: 2012-11-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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It's Rafe Khatchadorian's first day at Hills Village Middle School, and it's shaping up to be the worst year ever. He has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix, but luckily he's got an ace plan for the best year ever--if only he can pull it o...

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Crimson Footprints

by Shewanda Pugh

Published: 2013-12-09

Kindle Edition: 360 pages

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When an insecure, bi-racial woman begins a cloak-and-dagger love affair with a Japanese American man, she is intent on keeping her bigoted family in the dark albeit with devastating consequences. On the night of her brother s murder, Deena Hammond stumbles upon Takumi Tanaka, lost and on the wrong end...

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The Evolution of Sex

by John Maynard Smith

Published: 1978-09-29

Paperback: 236 pages

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The question of why organisms reproduce sexually is still a matter of controversy. In this account, Professor Maynard Smith considers the selective forces responsible for the origin and evolution of sexual reproduction and genetic recombination, using quantitative population genetics arguments to support...

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Sex and Evolution. (MPB-8)

by George Christopher Williams

Published: 1975-03-01

Paperback: 210 pages

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This book explores the relationship between various types of reproduction and the evolutionary process. Starting with the concept of meiosis, George C. Williams states the conditions under which an organism with both sexual and asexual reproductive capacities will employ each mode. He argu...

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Omens

by Kelley Armstrong

Published: 2013-08-20

Hardcover: 496 pages

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong begins her new series with Omens, featuring a compelling new heroine thrust into a decades-old murder case and the dark mysteries surrounding her strange new home. Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The onl...

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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book No. 1)

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2007-07-31

Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages

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Brandon Sanderson, fantasy’s newest master tale spinner, author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the hero of prophecy fails? What kind of world results when the Dark Lord is in charge? The answer will be found in the ...

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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel

by Sun-mi Hwang

Published: 2013-11-26

Paperback: 144 pages

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A Korean Charlotte's WebMore than 2 million copies sold   This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and com...

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Drama High: The Incredible True Story of a Brilliant Teacher, a Struggling Town, and the Magic of Theater

by Michael Sokolove

Published: 2013-09-26

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Friday Night Lights meets Glee?the incredible and true story of an extraordinary drama teacher who has changed the lives of thousands of students and inspired a town.   Why would the multimillionaire producer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon take his limo from Manh...

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Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture

by Dana Goodyear

Published: 2013-11-14

Hardcover: 272 pages

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New Yorker writer Dana Goodyear combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain in a rollicking narrative look at the shocking extremes of the contemporary American food world.   A new American cuisine is forming. Animals never before considered or l...