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The Handbook for Lightning Stri - Michele Young-Stone
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **When lightning strikes, lives are changed.**** **BECCA *On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No on... -
The Great War_ Breakthroughs - Harry Turtledove
From Publishers WeeklyThe historian and the creative writer unite in Turtledove to craft another impressive novel, this one the third in his series about an alternate WWI (American... -
The Golden Mean - Annabel Lyon
Amazon.com ReviewThe Golden Mean portrays lives that grow bigger as they unfold--in this case, two of the most notable lives ever lived, those of Alexander the Great and his ... -
The Golden Acorn - Catherine Cooper
SUMMARY:The Brit Writers' Awards (www.britwriters.co.uk) is nothing short of a writing and publishing phenomenon. It has attracted tens of thousands of entries... -
The Ghostway - Tony Hillerman
SUMMARY: Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off into the dry lands of the Big Reservation, but not before ... -
The Genius in All of Us - David W. Shenk
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in ... -
The Game - Neil Strauss
Nothing you have heard about The Game will prepare you for it.Neil Strauss reveals the bizarre world of the pick-up artist, men who devote their lives to mastering the techniques o... -
The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece... -
The Finkler Questione - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY:'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspec... -
The Feng Shui Detective's Caseb - Nury Vittachi
SUMMARY:A murder in the Philippines, a kidnapping in Thailand, grand theft auto in Singapore: just another day at the office for CF Wong. No, he's not a detective, he's a fe...