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The Dance Boots (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

by Linda LeGarde Grover

Published: 2012-04-01

Paperback: 172 pages

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In this stirring collection of linked stories, Linda LeGarde Grover portrays an Ojibwe community struggling to follow traditional ways of life in the face of a relentlessly changing world. In the title story an aunt recounts the harsh legacy of Indian boarding schools that tried to break ...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland HTML Edition

by Lewis Carroll

Published: 2012-05-17

Kindle Edition: 74 pages

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

by John Fox

Published: 2014-10-14

Paperback: 150 pages

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She sat at the base of the big tree—her little sunbonnet pushed back, her arms locked about her knees, her bare feet gathered under her crimson gown and her deep eyes fixed on the smoke in the valley below. Her breath was still coming fast between her parted lips. There were tiny drops along the roots...

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The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York

by Joel Rose

Published: 2008-03-17

Paperback: 480 pages

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“Irresistibly seductive. ... Murder mystery, historical novel, portal to another time; The Blackest Bird is a masterpiece.”—Anthony Bourdain In the sweltering summer of 1841, Mary Rogers, a popular tobacco shop counter girl, is found brutally murdered in the shallows of the Hudson Ri...

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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society

by Frans de Waal

Published: 2010-09-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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"An important and timely message about the biological roots of human kindness."—Desmond Morris, author of The Naked ApeAre we our brothers' keepers? Do we have an instinct for compassion? Or are we, as is often assumed, only on earth to serve our own survival and interests? In this thoug...

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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

by Richard Dawkins

Published: 2000-04-05

Paperback: 352 pages

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Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says acclaimed scientist Richard Dawkins; Newton's unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern co...

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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

by Philip Zimbardo

Published: 2008-01-22

Paperback: 576 pages

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What makes good people do bad things? How can moral people be seduced to act immorally? Where is the line separating good from evil, and who is in danger of crossing it?Renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo has the answers, and in The Lucifer Effect he explains how–and the myriad ...

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The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

by A.C. Grayling

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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Examining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious and how they stand up to scrutiny--The God Argument is a landmark book in the ongoing debate about the place of religion and secularism in...

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Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language

by Robert J. Gula

Published: 2007-03-14

Paperback: 245 pages

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Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical—how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course...

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The Meaning of Human Existence

by Edward O. Wilson

Published: 2014-10-06

Hardcover: 208 pages

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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his mos...