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Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family—her own childhood was not an easy one. Now she has married a man she adores who is from a prominent New England family, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life becomes the day her world falls apart. Her daughter is born beautiful and healthy, but no one can help noticing the African... (more)

Heredity and Human Diversity (Cambridge Social Biology Topics)

Heredity and Human Diversity (Cambridge Social Biology Topics)

by Stephen Tomkins

One of a series of books which aim to provide accounts of specific aspects of social biology, this book is based on the genetics sections of the A-level Social Biology syllabus. As well as providing information on genetics, the ethics of genetic engineering and its side issues are considered.

Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity

Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity

by Jennifer Ackerman

Award-winning science writer Jennifer Ackerman investigates the endless mysteries of genetics, offering an elegant natural history of humanity as seen through the lens of our genes and cells. Combining the gifts of vision and language with in-depth knowledge, Ackerman explores the ways in which, at the most fundamental level, humans are genetically linked to every part of the natural world. CHANCE IN THE... (more)

Harafish

by Naguib Mahfouz

Ashur al-Nagi, a man of humble origins, becomes a legendary leader among his people, but his subsequent descendants, through decadence and rivalry, lose touch with Ashur's glory, until one family member learns a lesson in strength. Reprint. K.

The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture

by Matt Ridley

<Previously published as Nature via Nurture > Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be... (more)

Children of the Red King: Book 1

Midnight for Charlie Bone

by Jenny Nimmo

The fabulous powers of the Red King were passed down through his descendants, after turning up quite unexpectedly, in someone who had no idea where they came from. This is what happened to Charlie Bone, and to some of the children he met behind the grim, gray walls of Bloor's Academy. Charlie Bone has discovered an unusual gift-he can hear people in photographs talking! His scheming aunts decide to send him to... (more)

The Drowning Tree: A Novel

by Carol Goodman

Artfully imagined, intricately detailed, eerily poignant: these are the outstanding features of Carol Goodman’s literary thrillers. She is part novelist, part craftsman—and The Drowning Tree is her newest masterpiece. Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at... (more)

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Family Tree

by Barbara Delinsky