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Aggravated Circumstances

by Michele Shriver

Published: 2013-03-31

Paperback: 276 pages

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A family can be torn apart in an instant. Putting it back together is a harder task. A relapsed addict opens the door to find a cop with a search warrant, setting off a chain of events that will cause four lives to intersect. Devin Lenox has already lost one child to the system and this time she vows...

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My Best Stories

by Alice Munro

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 536 pages

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 My Best Stories   is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. ...

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The Widow's War

by Mary Mackey

Published: 2009-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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The "superb" New York Times bestselling author delivers a sweeping epic set during the early days of the Civil War.In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant after her fiancé, abolitionist doctor William Saylor, disappears. After his stepbrother convinces her that William is dead...

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Edwin A. Abbott

Published: 1992-09-21

Paperback: 96 pages

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This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Sq...

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Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact

by Steven Kotler

Published: 2015-05-12

Paperback: 304 pages

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New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide r...

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Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

by Alice Dreger

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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New York Times Book Review "[S]mart, delightful... a splendidly entertaining education in ethics, activism and science.”Editors's Choice, New York Times Book ReviewAn impassioned defense of intellectual freedom and a clarion call to intellectual responsibility, Galileo’s Middle Finger...

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How We'll Live on Mars (TED Books)

by Stephen Petranek

Published: 2015-07-07

Hardcover: 96 pages

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Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will live on Mars by 2027. Now he makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable.It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on Mars. We’ll ne...

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God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

by Dan Barker

Published: 2016-02-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestse...

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The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science- and Reality

by Chris Mooney

Published: 2012-04-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today’s Republicans reject reality—it's just part of who they are.From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expe...

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The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Macmillan Science)

by Michael Hanlon

Published: 2006-08-08

Paperback: 208 pages

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Like all good science fiction, much of the cult classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series drew on scientific fact. Douglas Adams was a science and technology enthusiast and his books were inspired by--and sometimes, prefigured--many of the great scientific debates of our time. The Sc...