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Electric City: A Novel

by Elizabeth Rosner

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Upstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk ?from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world of science. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the headquarters of a major manufac...

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Dirty Work: A Novel

by Gabriel Weston

Published: 2014-08-12

Hardcover: 192 pages

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An informed and arresting debut novel about a young surgeon in crisis, by a writer whose "exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny." (Rachel Cusk)Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal...

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The Custom of the Country (Bantam Classics)

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1991-05-01

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First published in 1913, Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country is a scathing novel of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature. Undine Spragg is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York’s high society from the nouve...

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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes

by Deborah Madison

Published: 2013-03-12

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these conne...

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Other Powers: the Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull

by Barbara Goldsmith

Published: 1999-03-24

Paperback: 560 pages

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Barbara Goldsmith's portrait of suffragette Victoria Woodhull and her times was hailed by George Plimpton as "a beautifully written biography of a remarkable woman" and by Gloria Steinem as "more memorable than a dozen histories." A highly readable combination of history and biography, Ot...

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Wolf in White Van: A Novel

by John Darnielle

Published: 2014-09-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fictionWinner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adultsWelcome to Trace Italian, a game of strategy and survival! You may now make your first move. Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen,...

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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 272 pages

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Financial Times Business Book of the Year Finalist“Illuminating and very timely . . . a fascinating — and sometimes alarming — survey of big data’s growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way we think.”—New Y...

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The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)

by Henry James

Published: 2008-06-24

Paperback: 544 pages

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An incomparable Henry James?s novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration of American responses to Europe in which a Boston blueblood?s son bec...

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The Yorkshire Shepherdess

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Finding Jessica

by Parker Riggs

Published: 2014-11-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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What happens to gorgeous, red-haired, ex-CIA agent Rose Chandler when she takes on internationally acclaimed artist, Barrington Bigelow, as her new client? Trouble, big trouble. Summer's heating up, and so is the search for Barrington's past love, Jessica. The small town of Haven has two murders in...