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Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World

by Richard Rhodes

Published: 2011-11-29

Hardcover: 272 pages

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What do Hedy Lamarr, avant-garde composer George Antheil, and your cell phone have in common? The answer is spread-spectrum radio: a revolutionary inven­tion based on the rapid switching of communications sig­nals among a spread of different frequencies. Without this technology, we would...

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Heed the Thunder

by Jim Thompson

Published: 1994-02-01

Paperback: 312 pages

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Old Lincoln Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe, is conducting an affair with his voluptuous and volatile cousin. And behind everyone's b...

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Heft: A Novel

by Liz Moore

Published: 2012-01-23

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A heartwarming novel about larger-than-life characters and second chances.Former academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pi...

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Heidegger's Glasses: A Novel

by Thaisa Frank

Published: 2010-11-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Heidegger's Glasses opens during the end of World War II in a failing Germany coming apart at the seams. The Third Reich's strong reliance on the occult and its obsession with the astral plane has led to the formation of an underground compound of scribes—translators responsible for answ...

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Heidi

by Johanna Spyri

Published: 2014-04-17

Paperback: 176 pages

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The Heights

by Peter Hedges

Published: 2010-03-04

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Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hours Read by TBA The new novel by Oscar-nominated writer and director Peter Hedges: poor parents, rich parents, private schools, real estate, adultery, and marriage, in Brooklyn's wealthiest enclave.

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Hardcover: 304 pages

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Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now c...

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The Heights: A Novel

by Peter Hedges

Published: 2011-02-22

Paperback: 295 pages

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A "devilishly delightful" (Bookpage) new novel from an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, NewYork. Tim is a popular history te...

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The Heir of Night: The Wall of Night Book One

by Helen Lowe

Published: 2010-09-28

Mass Market Paperback: 466 pages

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If Night falls, all fall . . . In the far north of the world of Haarth lies the bitter mountain range known as the Wall of Night. Garrisoned by the Nine Houses of the Derai, the Wall is the final bastion between the peoples of Haarth and the Swarm of Dark?which the Derai have been figh...

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Heir to the Glimmering World: A Novel

by Cynthia Ozick

Published: 2004-09-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in Heir to the Glimmering World, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe's ousted drea...