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From the author of "Ordinary Money" and "Particles and Luck" comes a new novel about a once-eminent physicist whose excursion with his daughter to Hollywood gives him a hint of what he really needs to be happy.

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This title presents essays on inspired writings, both sacred and secular, in which things inaccessible are made suddenly accessible, and diction and desire are miraculously at one. Texts include the Oxford English Dictionary, Tyndale's Bible and poems by T.S. Eliot.

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Surprise attack explores sixty plus years of military and terror threats against the United States. It examines the intelligence tools and practices that provided warnings of those attacks and evaluates the United States responses, both in preparedness the effectiveness of our military and national command authority.

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Set in 1970s San Francisco, "Swallow the Ocean" is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive despite their mothers mental instability. In luminous prose, this memoir paints an intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood.

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Against the background violence committed by the returning soldiers trying to make an adjustment back into civilian life, Wayne Ogden attempts to destroy his former mentor and take down Collins Aircraft--the once fabled company that provided planes to Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Wiley Post.

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Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past How can the past be constructed Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for the future

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Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa, moves to a rural Mississippi Delta town and soon visits The Celestial Grocery, the city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox. The tie that binds these lives is American popular music.

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For "The Death of Picasso," Davenport has gathered 27 essays and stories from throughout his career, more than one-third of which have never before appeared in book form.

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A longtime city dweller and expert storyteller takes a fresh look at gardening in Vermont, tapping the connection between the mysteries of the earth and those of the human spirit. Dorothy Sucher explores both her corner of Vermont and the many aspects of gardening.

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"The Last Goodnights" provides a unique, powerful, and unflinching look deep inside the reality of one of the most galvanizing issues of our time: assisted suicide. In the end, this work is not just about death--it is also about love, courage, and autonomy.

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Offers a portrait of five relationships between artists who treated love as the last frontier for creative expression. This title sheds light on the love lives of Lou Andreas-Salome and Rainer Maria Rilke; Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe; Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and, Henry Miller and Anais Nin.

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This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it Which objects would you choose What memories do they hold And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell

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Since its discovery by Europeans in 1500, explorers, visionaries, soldiers of fortune, men of God, scientists, and slavers have been drawn to the legendary Amazon. "The River Sea" is a sweeping chronicle of those brave and hardy souls whose efforts to save the rain forest cost them their lives.