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City of Dark Magic: A Novel

by Magnus Flyte

Published: 2012-11-27

Paperback: 464 pages

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Cosmically fast-paced, wildly imaginative, and with City of Lost Dreams?the bewitching sequel?on shelves now, City of Dark Magic is the perfect potion of magic and suspense   Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as i...

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The Death Instinct: A Novel

by Jed Rubenfeld

Published: 2012-01-03

Paperback: 576 pages

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From the international bestselling author-"a sprawling and ambitious literary mystery" (The Seattle Times). From a true and shocking event-the bombing of lower Manhattan in September 1920-Jed Rubenfeld weaves a twisting and thrilling work of fiction as a physician, a female radiochemis...

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A Prison of Lies

by Robert Thomas Doran

Published: 2012-05-23

Paperback: 500 pages

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In his novel, A Prison of Lies, Robert Thomas Doran portrays a troubled youth, who confronts a world of sadness and hopelessness and comes to question the existence of God. Beset by challenges on every quarter: unable to fit in with his peers, shamed by his sexuality, ill equipped for emotional intimacy...

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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

by Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

Published: 2007-11-27

Paperback: 372 pages

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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid...

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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

by Alice Miller

Published: 1990-01-01

Paperback: 282 pages

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For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic la...

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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

by Alice Miller

Published: 2008-07-22

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Miller’s wide and profound book about childhood trauma has provided thousands of readers with guidance and hope, and is essential reading for those interested in psychology, psychotherapy, and more.

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author

by Richard Dawkins

Published: 2006-05-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have ...

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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

Published: 2005-09-02

Paperback: 688 pages

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With unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence, Richard Dawkins, one of the world's most renowned evolutionary biologists, has introduced countless readers to the wonders of science in works such as The Selfish Gene. Now, in The Ancestor's Tale, Dawkins offers a masterwork: an exhilarati...

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Black Holes: The Edge of Space, The End of Time

by Walter Sullivan

Published: 1979-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Exploring one of the most awesome mysteries of the universe, Sullivan examines recent research on the phenomenon of black holes and explains in nontechnical terms its implications concerning our understanding of time, space, and the origin of the universe.

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The Crusades Iron Men and Saints

by Harold Lamb

Published: 2005-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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1930. With numerous illustrations. In this volume is told the story of the first crusaders. It begins with their setting out, and it ends with the death of the last survivor. Eight hundred and thirty-five years have passed since then, and the lines of these men are known to us only by the chronicles...