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APRIL 1865 by Jay Winik
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Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
This New York Times best-seller from noted historian and acclaimed author Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the final month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead, it saved it. As April begins, the battered Confederate capital of Richmond falls to th ...Show more
Drinking Closer to Home: A Novel by Jessica Anya Blau
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Summer of Naked Swim Parties" comes a new novel of California, growing up, and learning to love one's family. There is nothing like ten days with one’s family to bring forth old obsessions and stir up childhood memories. When Anna, Portia and Emery’s mother, ...Show more
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
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Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
HEAD CASE by CASS DENNIS
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Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: P. S. Ser.
Infiltrating the world of neuroscience, Dennis Cass offers up his own brain to "research," subjecting his mind and body to electric shocks, mind-numbing attention experiments, cigarettes, stress tests of his own devising, and the comedy of Bill Maher. Like a slightly off-kilter George Plimpton, Cass, in ...Show more
Infinite Reality: Revealing the Mysteries of the Virtual Mind by Jim Blascovich
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Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications mean for the future of human life and society. This title examines the philosophical questions of the self and reality that arise through the digital experience. It shows the many practical applications of virtual reality, from ...Show more
LOST HEART OF ASIA by Thubron, Colin
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition--never more so than since the collapse of the Sovie ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
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A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
People's History Of The United States 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn
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Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants “[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times B ...Show more
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
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Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
The Cactus Eaters by Dan White
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
When Dan and his girlfriend set out to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, his parents wondered how two people who had never shared an apartment could survive in a four-by-six foot tent in the desert. Not to mention the fact that the trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, through boiling desert and snowcapped ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator); Harry Willets (Translator); Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Abridged by); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
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"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of f ...Show more