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How to Live Safely in a Science - Charles Yu
SUMMARY: Questions for Charles Yu on How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe You’re a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award-winner and this is your debut novel. When... -
High Performance Web Sites - Steve Souders
Want to speed up your web site? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief... -
Half a Life - V. S. Naipaul
1. The novel begins with Willie’s question to his father about why he was named after the English novelist W. Somerset Maugham. If a name is a crucial piece of a person’s identity,... -
Good Morning, Gorillas - Mary Pope Osborne
Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series--the Magic Tree House! Gentle giants or giant monsters?That's the question Jack and... -
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could... -
From Eternity to Here - Sean Carroll
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?** T... -
From Dawn to Deceit - Terry Joseph
SUMMARY: Are the Wall Street players Jasper Cunningham encounters along his quest for power merely a pawn in his murderous passion for wealth? From Dawn to Deceit reveals the saga ... -
Fluke_ Or, I Know Why the Winge - Christopher Moore
SUMMARY: Just why do humpback whales sing?That's the question that has marine biologist Nate Quinnand his crew poking, charting, recording andphotographing very big, wet, gray mari... -
Finding Atlantis - David King
The untold story of a fascinating Renaissance man on an adventurous hunt for a lost civilizationan epic quest through castles, courts, mythologies, and the spectacular world of the... -
Endymion - Dan Simmons
Amazon.com ReviewTwo hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before ....