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Couch

by Benjamin Parzybok

Published: 2008-11-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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"Couch hits on an improbable, even fantastic premise, and then rigorously hews to the logic that it generates, keeping it afloat (at times literally) to the end."—Los Angeles Times"Delightfully lighthearted writing. . . . Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the enthusiastic prose carries ...

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Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

by Annie Jacobsen

Published: 2014-02-11

Hardcover: 592 pages

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The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the ...

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Across the Mekong River

by Elaine Russell

Published: 2012-04-06

Paperback: 262 pages

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In a California courtroom, seventeen-year-old Nou Lee reels with what she is about to do. What she must do to survive. She reflects on the splintered path that led to this moment, beginning twelve years ago in 1978, when her Hmong family escaped from Laos after the Communist takeover. The story follows...

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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

by Irene Pepperberg

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 232 pages

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Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. A New York ...

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When "Spiritual but Not Religious" Is Not Enough: Seeing God in Surprising Places, Even the Church

by Lillian Daniel

Published: 2014-01-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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The phrase "I'm spiritual but not religious" has become a cliché. It's easy to find God amid the convenience of self-styled spirituality--but is it possible (and more worthwhile) to search for God through religion?Minister and celebrated author Lillian Daniel gives a new spin on church wi...

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I Believe in ZERO: Learning From the World's Children

by Caryl M. Stern

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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First-hand, human stories of hope, resilience, determination, and family: a call to see the world's children as our own, by the President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEFIn I Believe in ZERO, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF Caryl M. Stern draws on her travels around the w...

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The Facades: A Novel

by Eric Lundgren

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 224 pages

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A 2013 BEA Buzz Selection and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick, The Facades is one of the most remarkable and talked-about debut novels in recent memory. Set in the once-great Midwestern city of Trude?a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries, and elitist assisted...

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Casual Friday: A Short Story Prequel to The Intern's Handbook

by Shane Kuhn

Published: 2014-02-04

Kindle Edition: 48 pages

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Casual Friday is the story of hit man John Lago’s very first assignment as a recruit with Human Resources, Inc., a placement agency that sends assassins, disguised as interns, to take out high-level targets under cover of corporate invisibility. John will go on to become the most success...

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Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation

by Amy M. Davis

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 280 pages

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In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at t...

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Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains: Masculinity in Disney's Feature Films

by Amy M. Davis

Published: 2013-09-01

Paperback: 276 pages

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From the iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) to Tangled, the 2010 retelling of Rapunzel, Handsome Heroes and Vile Villains looks at the portrayal of male characters in Disney films from the perspective of masculinity studies and feminist film theory. This companion volume to Good...