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Science, Sense and Nonsense_ 61 - Joe Schwarcz
When did "chemical" become a dirty word? Forty or so years ago, chemistry - which had been recognized as a miracle-making boon to humanity - somehow became associated with warfare,... -
Round Rock - Michelle Huneven
From BooklistThe small California town of Rito, situated in the San Bernita Valley, is the kind of place that attracts dreamers, like the early settlers who made fortunes as citrus... -
Rose in a Storm - Jon Katz
From Katz, best-selling author of the anecdotal Bedlam Farm books, returns to his fiction roots with this gently appealing tale of a sheepdog named Rose. Fully immersing himself in... -
Right as Rain_ A Novel - George P. Pelecanos
Amazon.com ReviewGeorge Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a far cry from the upwardly mobile, tourist-attraction-speckled enclave of Margaret Truman (_Murder at the National Cathedr... -
Riding the Thunder - Deborah MacGillivray
When Irishman Jago Mershan travels to a Kentucky horse farm to enact his brother's plan to destroy the Montgomerie family, he finds himself hopelessly ensnared by his enemy's daugh... -
Return to Sender - Julia Alvarez
SUMMARY: After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t s... -
Recoil - David Sherman; Dan Cragg
SUMMARY: Swift, silent, and deadly–they strike where no one else dares.Fear is the fastest-growing crop on Haulover, a newly colonized planet where someone–or something–is destroyi... -
Realms of Infamy - James Lowder
Product DescriptionFrom the secret annals of Realms history come these never-before-published tales of infamy, featuring the most nefarious villains of that magical world -- Artemi... -
Rain Village - Carolyn Turgeon
From BooklistTessa is a very small girl in a family of giants. And, much to her family's bewilderment and ridicule, she isn't cut out for farmwork. Instead, Tessa gets a job at the... -
Q-In-Law - Peter David
Product DescriptionWhen two powerful rival families of the spacefaring merchant race called the Tizarin are to be joined through marriage, the_U.S.S. EnterpriseTM_ is chosen as the...