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The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Choice, perhaps the highest good in the American socioeconomic lexicon, is a very mixed blessing, according to this fascinating study of decis... -
The Angel Whispered Danger - Mignon F. Ballard
SUMMARY: When Kate McBride returns to her hometown of Bishop's Bridge, North Carolina, for a family reunion, she expects questions about her husband's conspicuous absence. What she... -
The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
SUMMARY: In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the ... -
The Anatomy of Deception - Lawrence Goldstone
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Goldstone, an acclaimed popular historian (Out of the Flames; The Friar and the Cipher), marks out new terrain with his compelling f... -
The American Plague - Molly Caldwell Crosby
From Publishers WeeklyIn a summer of panic and death in 1878, more than half the population of Memphis, Tenn., fled the raging yellow fever epidemic, which finally waned when coole... -
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. Th... -
The Amber Room - Steve Berry
From Publishers WeeklyFirst-time novelist Berry weighs in with a hefty thriller that's long on interesting research but short on thrills. Atlanta judge Rachel Cutler and ex-husband... -
The Amateurs - David Halberstam
From Publishers WeeklyThe author of The Powers that Be and The Best and the Brightest tells of the dedication, competition and camaraderie of the athletes who represented the U.S. ... -
The Airplane - Jay Spenser
From Publishers WeeklyThis history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright broth.... -
The Age of Empathy_ Nature's Le - Frans de Waal
From Publishers WeeklyDe Waal (Chimpanzee Politics), a renowned primatologist, culls an astounding volume of research that deflates the human assumption that animals lack the char....