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Age of Miracles

by Karen Thomps Walker

Published: 2012-09-21

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'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Age of Miracles: A Novel

by Karen Thompson Walker

Published: 2013-01-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ? O: The Oprah Magazine ? Financial Times ? Kansas City Star ? BookPage ? Kirkus Reviews ? Publishers Weekly ? Booklist   With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of ...

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The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

by Marianne Williamson

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 187 pages

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The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood�...

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The Age of Orphans: A Novel

by Laleh Khadivi

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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The boy wants nothing more than his maman’s lap and a view of the birds that soar over his Kurdish village. Nameless, impressionable, and watchful, the boy soon becomes a man in a mountaintop ritual with his baba, uncles, and cousins. And as a man, he must join the male villagers when th...

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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

by Alan Greenspan

Published: 2007-09-17

Hardcover: 544 pages

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In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good ...

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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

by Richard Holmes

Published: 2009-07-14

Hardcover: 552 pages

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A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping...

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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage)

by Richard Holmes

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 576 pages

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The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.  When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise...

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Agent 6

by Tom Rob Smith

Published: 2011

Hardcover: 0 pages

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* * * * Fun,
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Agent X

by Noah Boyd

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail navigates a maze of hidden codes and brain-teasing puzzles to stay hot on the trail of a band of Russian spies in this breathtaking follow-up to his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bricklayer FBI-agent-turned-bricklayer Steve Vail once helped the FBI solv...

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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

Published: 2008-08-12

Paperback: 364 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDSA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of 2007One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment Weekly)New York Times Best of the Year Round-UpNew York Times Editors’ ChoiceEddie Chapman was a charmin...