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Alexander Short is a stylish young reference librarian. With his job in jeopardy and his marriage coming apart, Alexander meets the improbably named Henry James Jesson III, a book-lover who hires the librarian for some after-hours research.

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Introduces dozens of experiments using potato chip bags, potato chips, lids, tubes, and spuds. This book includes experiments, modifications, scientific principles, and saturated facts.

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

The true account of one boys lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.

Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweils search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus.