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Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

Published: 2012-09-26

Hardcover: 144 pages

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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major...

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Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

by Nancy Pearcey

Published: 2015-03-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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  Don't Think, Just Believe? That's the mantra in many circles today--whether the church, the classroom, the campus, or the voting booth.   Time for a Reality Check Nancy Pearcey, bestselling and critically acclaimed author, offers fresh tools to break free from presumed certainties and ...

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The Space Between the Stars

by Anne Corlett

Published: 2017-06-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.comWhen the world ends, where will you go?In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a...

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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War)

by Nigel Hamilton

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 496 pages

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“Superb . . . Hamilton brilliantly sets out Roosevelt’s foresight, determination and skill in establishing a new world order.” —Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post “Provocative . . . stimulating to follow.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review 1943 was the year of Allied ...

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The Last Place You Look: A Mystery

by Kristen Lepionka

Published: 2017-06-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton?black and from the wrong side of the tracks?was convicted of the murders and is ...

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The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel

by Jim Fergus

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel."Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." ?The Denver Post"A gripping tale, a history lesson infused with bot...

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Circe

by Madeline Miller

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 400 pages

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"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times).In the house of Helios, god of t...

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Wisconsin on the Air: 100 Years of Public Broadcasting in the State That Invented It

by Jack Mitchell

Published: 2016-08-16

Hardcover: 240 pages

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On a wintry evening in 1917, university professor Earle Terry listened with guests as the popular music of the day filtered from a physics laboratory in Science Hall into a receiving set in his living room. Little did they know that one hundred years of public service broadcasting had just...

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Ma Jeeter's Girls

by Dorothy Thomas

Published: 1986-04-01

Paperback: 197 pages

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Ma Jeeter, a sensible and hearty farm woman, tells the stories of the courtships of five daughters to the schoolteacher who boards with her. Ella, Bell, Lena, Laura, and Lizzie all got bitten and burdened early, thanks to the bumblebee of love. Now her youngest, Evie, is coming home to be ...

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Wife No. 19, the Story of a Life in Bondage, Being a Complete Expose of Mormonism

by Ann Elizabeth Young

Published: 2015-12-08

Paperback: 308 pages

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This looks at the Mormon church from the perspective of a woman married to Mormon leader Brigham Young, who had over 50 wives during the course of his life.   From the intro:  "I have read the advance sheets of Mrs. Ann-Eliza Young's book with painful interest, which has deepened into ...