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Another exhilarating thriller from Edgar Award winner David Ellis, introducing the new series protagonist Jason Kolarich. Jason Kolarich is a midwestern Everyman with a lineman’s build and an easy smart-ass remark. He’s a young, intelligent maverick, but he’s also struggling with an overwhelming emotional burden—one that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of those around him. ... (more)

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all... (more)

Strength in What Remains

A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

by Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains , has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s... (more)

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

by Paul Lockhart

“One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen.”—Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR’s Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful and rejects standard anxiety-producing teaching methods. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart’s controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among... (more)

Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness

by Alva Noe?

Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out of Our Heads , he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: Do away with the two hundred-year-old paradigm that places... (more)

The Recently Deflowered Girl, the Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion

The Recently Deflowered Girl, the Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion

Merry Gentry: Book 8

Divine Misdemeanors

by Laurell K. Hamilton

You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. But I turned my... (more)

Get Off Your Lazy AssetsLoral Langemeier

Get Off Your Lazy Assets

by Loral Langemeier

The Making of a Mentor: Nine Essential Characteristics of Influential Christian Leaders

The Making of a Mentor: Nine Essential Characteristics of Influential Christian Leaders

by Marilee Pierce Dunker, Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

Jesus ministered to many but focused on a few. What makes this strategy so compelling? Because he understood the secret of living forward—spiritual multiplication through intentionally influencing a few people at a time. He knew that by concentrating on a few faithful men and women they would leave behind them a legacy of people whose influence would extend beyond a generation or two; in fact, a legacy that would... (more)

History of Emigration from China and South-East Asia (Origins)

History of Emigration from China and South-East Asia (Origins)

by Katherine Prior

Presents a history of emigration from China and Southeast Asia while also detailing accounts of the migrants' experiences and emphasizing their positive input in their new countries.

Waiting for Autumn

by Scott Blum

“Waiting for Autumn is a warm and revealing book about personal transformation. Its narrative reveals the honesty of one who has really walked the path of forgiveness and divine connection and found the rewards of intuition, mission, and synchronistic flow. This book will speak to everyone.” — James Redfield, the author of The Celestine Prophecy “A thrilling story, a deep metaphysical message, a breath of... (more)

by Carole Matthew

When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster - nor is he referring to their fourth failed attempt at IVF. What she doesn't realise is that he's having an affair with a girl at work. Lyssa is faced with two choices - sink or swim - and, after a fairly shaky start, she decides to swim with style...

Instant egghead guide.

by Brian Clegg

by James Scudamore

Born in a Sao Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his control, he first leaves, then returns to the vast city of his birth - but on the opposite side of its social divide. Now twenty-seven, he works for a vacuous 'communications company', marketing unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born. He has developed an obsessive,... (more)

Presentation Zen: The Video (DVD) (Voices That Matter)

Presentation Zen: The Video (DVD) (Voices That Matter)

by Garr Reynolds

The physics of miracles : tapping in to the field of consciousness potential

The physics of miracles : tapping in to the field of consciousness potential

by Richard Bartlett

In The Physics of Miracles , Dr. Bartlett builds upon his popular seminars to teach us how to access the discovery he has made -- a process that merges the science of subtle energy with our innate imaginations to produce measurable results. By applying forces known to modern physics, you will learn to tap into states of healthy awarenes from different moments -- in essence, travel in time -- and bring them into... (more)

Summertime: Fiction

by J. M. Coetzee

A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed fatherÂ—a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding... (more)

Not Untrue and Not Unkind: A NovelEd O'Loughlin

Not Untrue and Not Unkind: A Novel

by Ed O'Loughlin

Longlisted for the Booker Prize! A riveting novel of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal, set against the lush but tumultuous backdrop of war-torn Africa In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on CartwrightÂ’s desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved. Not Untrue &... (more)

Sight Hound: A Novel

by Pam Houston

The long-awaited novel; a very special love story; from the best-selling author of Cowboys Are My Weakness . This is the story of a woman, Rae, and her dog, Dante, a wolfhound who teaches "his human" that love is stronger than fear (the dog has always known this). Dante is the catalyst for change in other characters as well, and they step forward with their narratives: Rae's house-tender; her therapist; two... (more)

Intelligent Design

These ten original stories explore one of the most heatedly debated topics today. From a tale that examines whether life on Earth is an out-of-control science project, to one which reveals which species will inherit the planet, to a portrait of a scientist determined to discover the truth about God, the stories in this anthology tackle the big questions in ways that range from startling to satiricalÂ—and are... (more)

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The Hidden Man

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