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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 Science of Fear - Dan Gardner
Blink meets The Culture of Fear in a provocative look at the new brain science of risk: how hard-wired fears misguide and manipulate us every day. From terror attacks to the war on... -
The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell
SUMMARY: It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medi... -
The Scar - China Mieville
SUMMARY:A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sp... -
The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
From Publishers WeeklyBig, broad splashes of action and crude but colorful characters are Sheldon's trademarks, as he demonstrates again in a new novel probably destined to join Wi... -
The Sacred Vault_ A Novel - Andy McDermott
Review“No fan of Indiana Jones, Matthew Reilly or action in general will be able to put it down.” —_Northern Territory News_, on _The Pyramid of Doom _“Raises the bar to please... -
The Russian Dreambook of Color - Gina Ochsner
In a crumbling apartment building in post-Soviet Russia, there's a ghost who won't keep quiet.Mircha fell from the roof and was never properly buried, so he sticks around to heckle... -
The Road to Cana - Anne Rice
Anne Rice's second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana.... -
The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
Amazon.com ReviewThis conclusion of the Hyperion saga ( FromThe latest episode (following last year's Endymion) of Simmons' Foundation-like saga of the far future ... -
The Ring of Winter - James Lowder
Product DescriptionOne of the Harpers (a secret organization fighting for good) searches the jungle for a missing explorer and happens on a lost civilization--complete with dinosau...