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Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

de Olympia Snowe

A spirited call to action by Olympia J. Snowe, the iconic moderate and three-term Republican senator from Maine

The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World's Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books

de Matti Friedman

A thousand years ago, the most perfect copy of the Hebrew Bible was written. It was kept safe through one upheaval after another in the Middle East, and by the 1940s it was housed in a dark grotto in Aleppo,...

Hunts in Dreams

de Tom Drury

“Drury is a truly great writer.”—Esquire

“A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating.”—The New York Times

“Startling and utterly original.”—Newsday

In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once...

The City of Ember Deluxe Edition: The First Book of Ember

de Jeanne Duprau

Since 2003, readers of all ages have been captivated by Jeanne DuPrau's bestselling dystopian story about a doomed city and the two children determined to escape it. Now new and old fans alike can celebrate...

The Five Bells and Bladebone

Richard Jury #9

de Martha Grimes

When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique writing bureau, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest: “I bought the desk, not the body,...

I Am the Only Running Footman

Richard Jury #8

de Martha Grimes

In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead. Almost a year later, on another rainy night, another murder; this time, however, the victim is found just outside a pub called I Am the Only Running...

The Old Silent

Richard Jury #10

de Martha Grimes

In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes...

Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

de Jessica Buchanan, Erik Landemalm & Anthony Flacco

In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native...

Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

de Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou

Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities’ deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and...

Supersymmetry and Beyond: From the Higgs Boson to the New Physics

de Gordon Kane

The epic story of the quest to uncover a fully unified theory of physics, revised to reflect the possible discovery of the Higgs Boson.

For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

de Mark Pendergrast

Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism

Vote

de Gary Paulsen

   Kevin Spencer, the hero of Liar, Liar, Flat Broke, and Crush, has a knack for tackling big ideas and goofing up, so what's next? Politics, of course! He's running for office, and his campaign is truly...

Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol: A Mystery

de Gyles Brandreth

Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the treadmill, solitary...

Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry

de Paul Ingrassia & Joseph B. White

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's...

A Case of Redemption

de Adam Mitzner

Acclaimed thriller author Adam Mitzner returns with the gripping tale of a high-profile attorney recovering from a personal tragedy who’s drawn back into the courtroom—and a media firestorm— in the biggest...

The Case of the Plagued Play

de David Lewman

The school play is in danger of closing before it even opens if Club CSI: can’t figure out who’s ruining rehearsals!

Someone is trying to sabotage the school play, and it’s up to Hannah, Ben, and Corey...

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

de John Taliaferro

If Henry James or Edith Wharton had written a novel describing the accomplished and glamorous life and times of John Hay, it would have been thought implausible—a novelist’s fancy. Nevertheless, John Taliaferro’s...

The Night I Disappeared

de Julie Reece Deaver

Something scary is happening to seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman. Ever since she and her mother arrived in Chicago, she’s been plagued by freaky mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her sort-of boyfriend,...

A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account

de Gabriel Schoenfeld

Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win?

In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, is the first insider to speak...

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

de Mario Livio

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough.

Charles Darwin, William Thomson...