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The Secret of the Dread Forest - Gillian Summers
SUMMARY: Now that she has (sort of) defeated a diabolical elf, Keelie Heartwood reluctantly joins her father in the Dread Forest. Her "real" friends are gone, her dad is preoccupie... -
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair wi... -
The Science of the Oven - Herve This
Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated, whereas, under the same conditions, solids melt. When mea... -
The River - Gary Paulsen
From Publishers Weekly In a boxed review, PW praised the "terse, heart-stopping prose" of this follow-up to Hatchet : "The new adventure is as riveting as its predecessor . . . the... -
The Reluctant Nude - Meg Maguire
SUMMARY: Chipping away at her resistance, one touch at a time...Fallon Frost's late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous ... -
The Red Queen_ Sex and the Evol - Matt Ridley
Two fascinating questions lie at the heart of The Red Queen: Why is Homo sapiens a sexual species, and what implications does this have for human nature? That man is sexual may see... -
The Race Beat - Gene Roberts; Hank Klibanoff; R
This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity after World War II came instead to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indi... -
The Protege - Stephen W. Frey
From Publishers WeeklyChristian Gillette's second outing in financial thrillerland finds Chris heading Manhattan-based investment firm Everest Capitol after his boss was murdered i... -
The Potato Chip Puzzles - Eric Berlin
When puzzle addict Winston Breen and his best friends head to an all-day puzzle hunt with a $50,000 grand prize, they’re pumped. But the day is not all fun and games: not only do t... -
The Paleo Diet - Loren Cordain
Amazon.com ReviewAccording to author Loren Cordain, modern health and diet problems didn't start with the advent of packaged snack food, but much earlier--back at the dawn of the a...