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Lost Museum:
The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal
the World's Greatest Works of Art
by Hector Feliciano (1998)
"Between 1939 and 1944, as the Nazis overran Europe, they were also quietly conducting another type of pillage. The Lost Museum tells the story of the Jewish art collectors and gallery owners in France who were stripped of rare works by artists such as..."
(History)
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Molly Moon Stops the World
by Georgia Byng
"But be warned: this trip is very dangerous, and evil lurks at every turn. Molly Moon is back -- and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire
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(Ages 8-12)
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Poe
by Peter Ackroyd
"Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional..."
(Biography)
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Beat the Reaper
by Josh Bazell
"Meet Peter Brown, a young Manhattan emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient--and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and..."
(Fiction)
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Electroboy
A Memoir of Mania
by Andy Behrman
"And for the first time the golden boy didn't have a ready escape hatch from his unraveling life. Ingesting handfuls of antidepressants and tranquilizers and feeling his mind lose traction, he opted for the last resort..."
(Memoir)
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The Oil Card:
Global Economic Warfare
in the 21st Century
by James R. Norman
TrineDay Publishing
"...By deciphering past, present, and future geopolitical events, it makes the case that oil pricing and availability have a long history of being employed as economic weapons by the United States. Despite ample world supplies and reserves..."
(Conspiracy)
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Camp Concentration
by Thomas M. Disch
1940-2008
"Louis Sacchetti is a conscientious objector in an alternate 1970s where the United States is fighting, but necessarily winning, a vague and prolonged war. Like all "conchies," Louis is sitting out the conflict in prison, preferring to spend five years in jail rather than condone the slaughter..."
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(Science Fiction)
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The Eternity Artifact
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.,
L.E Modesitt
"Five thousand years in the future, humankind has spread across the galaxy and more than a dozen different planetary and system governments exist in an uneasy truce. Human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere..."
(Science Fiction)
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A Crystal Age
by William Henry Hudson
(1841-1922)
"William Henry Hudson's mystical utopian novel shows small, self-sufficient households living in harmony with nature."
(Fiction)
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Blue Bloods
Melissa de la Cruz
"Schuyler Van Alen is confused about what is happening to her. Her veins are starting to turn blue, and she's starting to crave raw meat. Soon, her world is thrust into an intricate maze of secret societies and bitter intrigue. Schuyler has never been a part..."
(Fiction)
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How the 1958 NFL Championship
Changed Football Forever
by Frank Gifford, Peter Richmond
"In 1958 Frank Gifford was the golden boy on the glamour team in the most celebrated city in the NFL. When his New York Giants played the Baltimore Colts for the league championship that year, it became the single most memorable contest in the history of professional football..."
(Sports)
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Science Remaking the World
by Otis W. Caldwell
(1922)
"Sixteen of the lectures have been published in a book titled Science Remaking the World. They deal with coal tar, epidemiology, gasoline ... The stress always falls on the fancy word science, and some articles do deal with electrons or evolution. But the concern is with a world being rebuilt by technology..."
(Science)
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The Slave Ship:
A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
"For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. In The Slave Ship, award-winning historian Marcus Rediker creates an unprecedented history of these vessels and the..."
(History)
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
by B. Traven
"The Treasure of Sierra Madre is the literary masterpiece for America's pop mythology of the Wild West. A savagely ironic novel, it follows the rugged adventure of three Americans hunting for gold in the mountains of Mexico who find themselves caught..."
(Western)
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Bleak House *
by Charles Dickens
(* purchased by M.W.)
"Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades—the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by..."
(Classic Novel)
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Death of a Hussy
by M. C. Beaton
"...Wealthy Maggie Baird is neither nice nor kind nor generous. Once she was beautiful, but now, although middle-aged, she retains the appetites of a beautiful woman. When Maggie's car catches fire with her inside it, suspicion focuses on the five houseguests staying at..."
(Fiction)
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UFOs and the National
Security State:
Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941-1973
Richard Dolan
"...a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public's imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects..."
(History)
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Deja Dead
by Kathy Reichs
" 'I'm on a first-name basis with the odor of death,' remarks Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the province of Quebec. Tempe thought she had seen it all until she was called upon to examine a brutally butchered body on the grounds of an abandoned Catholic seminary in Montreal..."
(Fiction)
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Night World No. 1:
Secret Vampire/Daughters of Darkness/Spellbinder
by L.J. Smith
"Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World."
(Fiction)
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The Overflowing Brain:
Information Overload &
the Limits of Working Memory
by Torkel Klingberg
"As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to..."
(Science)
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The Charlemagne Pursuit
(Cotton Malone Series #4)
"As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath the ice shelves of Antarctica..."
(Fiction)
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The Real War Against America
by Brett Kingstone
"International scandal, undercover private investigators, shredded evidence, intimidation, and theft: all in a day’s work for Brett Kingstone, author of The Real War Against America. Kingstone tells the true story of the..."
(Nonfiction)
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Ten Little Fingers
& Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury
"...Australian writer Mem Fox and British illustrator Helen Oxenbury -- have collaborated on a book that is sure to become an instant classic. The topic appears so obvious, one would think that it had been done before many times over -- but no..."
(Age Range 0-4)
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Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis, Kathleen Norris
"The point about reading C. S. Lewis is that he makes you sure, whatever you believe, that religion accepted or rejected means something extremely serious, demanding the entire energy of mind."
(Religion-Philosophy)
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Victor Fleming:
An American Movie Master
"Amazingly, this is Mr. Sragow's first book (he is a movie reviewer for the Baltimore Sun), and it's impressively researched and written -- evocative, layered, engaged, graceful and compelling..."
Peter Bogdanovich
WSJ 12/11/2008
(Film)
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The Little Book:
by Selden Edwards
"First-time novelist Selden Edwards here conjures up a light fable about the birth of modernism -- a frothy bit of time-travel that makes literal Nietzsche's idea of the eternal return. In this case, we're given to understand that Edwards's all-American hero, Frank Standish Burden III, and his father, Frank II, were able to change the course of modern history and culture by..."
(Science Fiction)
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Target: Patton
The Plot to Assassinate
General George S. Patton
"...In 1945, shortly before he was to fly home to the states as a conquering hero, he was involved in a mysterious car crash that left him partially paralyzed. Two weeks later, just as his doctors were about to send him home to finish his recovery, he was dead. The army ruled the car crash an accident, his death natural. Yet witness testimony on the crash conflicted..."
(History)
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Lump of Coal
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
"... a surprisingly witty and delightful Christmas story about a lump of coal. A lump of coal, traditionally the dreaded stocking stuffer from Santa Claus to children on the Naughty List, is not such a dreaded gift at all if you are an abstract artist..."
(Age Range 4-8)
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Green Eggs & Ham:
by Dr. Seuss
"Dr. Seuss turns 50 simple words into magic in this time-honored classic. Sam-I-am won't give up! He keeps trying to get the grumpy grown-up in the story to taste green eggs and ham. No matter how Sam-I-am presents the green eggs and ham (in a box, with a fox, in the rain, on a train), the curmudgeon refuses to try them..."
(Age Range 5-8)
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The Street Stops Here:
A Year at a Catholic
High School in Harlem
"...At Rice High School in Harlem, where Mr. McCloskey focuses most of his book's attention, the per-pupil cost of an education is pegged at $5,800 a year. The cost of a public-school education in that same neighborhood is at least twice that and probably higher, depending..."
Christopher Willcox
WSJ 12/5/2008
(Education)
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The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac:
Styles, Stats, and Stars
in Today's Game
"The indispensable, amazingly illustrated companion to today's NBA—a roundball Rosetta Stone that hilariously decodes the trends and tendencies of pro basketball..."
(Sports)
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How to Live on Mars:
A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving &
Thriving on the Red Planet
"Thinking about moving to mars?
Well, why not? Mars, after all, is the planet that holds the greatest promise for human colonization. But why speculate about the possibilities when you can get the real scientific scoop from someone who’s been happily living and working there for years?..."
(Science Fiction)
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740 Park:
The Story of the World's
Richest Apartment Building
"From a bestselling author and journalist renowned for his access to the rich and famous comes the epic story of the last great apartment building erected on Manhattan's Gold Coast--home to countless 20th Century icons including Bouviers, Rockefellers and Chryslers, as well as modern Midases like Edgar Bronfman, Henry Kravis, Ronald O. Perelman and Saul Steinberg..."
(History)
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The Draining Lake
(Reykjavik Thriller Series #4)
by Arnaldur Indridason
translator Bernard Scudder
"Following an earthquake,the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls, revealing a skeleton that is weighed down by a heavy radio device bearing inscriptions in Russian. Inspectors Erlendur, Elinborg, and Sigurdur Oli’s investigation takes them back to the Cold War era..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace
"'I make most of my money off my friends. They aren't looking for you to screw them so you can really sock it to them.' The salesman bragged that one of his most profitable sales was to his sister, who bought a fully loaded model at top dollar..."
John Stoll
WSJ 12/3/2008
(Nonfiction)
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Minority Victory:
Gilded Age Politics and the
Front Porch Campaign of 1888
"The two hot issues in 1888 were the tariff and the surplus. Federal revenues, engorged by tariff income, outpaced the expenditures of a government whose tasks were still limited by the pesky Constitution. In fiscal 1888, the surplus equaled 30% of total receipts. President Cleveland warned that the surplus invited 'public plunder'..."
Bill Kauffman
WSJ 12/4/2008
(Politics)
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Evil Genes:
Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose,
Enron Failed, & My Sister Stole
My Mother's Boyfriend
"Have you ever met a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after her mysterious death, author Barbara Oakley takes the reader inside the head of the kinds of malevolent people you know, perhaps all too well, but could never understand..."
(Genetics & Genomics)
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What I Saw & How I Lied
by Judy Blundell
"When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly..."
(Young Adult)
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A Devil to Play:
One Man's Year-Long Quest
to Master the Orchestra's
Most Difficult Instrument
"...But I will say that, after all the tales of addiction and affliction that have made modern memoirs such a gloomy genre, his account of turning the horn from an old foe into an old friend is as refreshing as it is uplifting..."
Eric Felton
WSJ 12/1/2008
(Memoir)
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Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson
translator: Ann Born
"Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while..."
(Foreign Language Novel)
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . . This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
